19 Oct
2001
19 Oct
'01
9:17 a.m.
I don't see how. I have some documents (I think
written by Ward
Christiansen) about how XModem and YModem work and it seemed fairly
straightforward to implement the protocol. XModem isn't exactly that
difficult of a protocol to support 8-)
Hey, since there is a discussion of protocol's going on... does anyone
have the specs needed to write an implimentation of the I-modem protocol?
(that's I as in "Eye" or "Myself").
I know it was created by John Friel (at least, that is what I learned
when researching the protocol). But I can't find any real specs on it.
The only other thing I know about it is Procomm Plus version 1.1B
supports it. I need it to download data files off one of my systems here,
and I want to write a nicer download front end for it. Right now I have
to do it manually thru Procomm... not that it is a big deal for me, but I
want to be able to let some of the other office staff here take care of
the job, and for them, using Procomm and sending ASCII commands isn't a
good idea (they will screw something up... they have in the past, and
they will again in the future).
If I can get the specs on the protocol, I can write a program with a nice
GUI to handle the logging in, and selecting data, and downloading it...
not to mention, then I can do it on the Mac, which means some of these
people can do it right from their desk.
I'm hoping some of you wizards out there might have the info I need. (I
have exhausted Google among other search engines looking for it)
Thanks
-chris
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