19 Oct
2001
19 Oct
'01
8:07 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Douglas Quebbeman once stated:
Admittedly, the fits I had with it weren't due to the protocol, and
you're right, it did seem more robust... there were apparantly some
variations in how the X/Y/Zmodem protocols got implemented...
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-)
QModem may have been it, I was using a version under OS/2 1.0...
The QModem program I used ran under MS-DOS. I've found that I really
dislike the Windows versions of such programs because Windows makes working
with modems a real pain (about as painful as using a modem under Unix and
that's quite a task!).
-spc (``No! I want to talk directly to the serial port you piece of
#$%@$#@#$!#$! Let me talk to it, #$%#@$%@#$%#@!'')
It was thus said that the Great Douglas Quebbeman
once stated:
Dang! How can I live this down?
I was
never a big Kermit fan. It came at the very end of the days
when it would have been of most use to me (76-81). As a nearly
charter member of Ward & Randy's BBS, I adopted Ward Christiansen's
XMODEM protocol, and used MODEM/MODEM86 during those years.
Kermit was a life saver when I was at college; it could always get stuff
through when X/Y/ZModem wouldn't work at all. PROCOMM most closely resembled Andrew's program,
so that became my
standard terminal emulator under DOS, and later Windows.
I preferred Qmodem but later switched to Procomm because of the better
terminal emulation.