PE>> Zmodem is brain-dead? Why?

BL> Because it does too much too often using too-small a buffer. In the
BL> days of 2400 baud and no on-the-fly error correcting modems, zmodem
BL> was great. That was a loooong time ago. A 5-second check on a noisy
BL> lines still makes some sort of sense, but that's not a 1024 buffer,
BL> it's a 16K buffer. For comms compression, dedicated hardware in the
BL> modem makes more sense than software. I can do error correction at
BL> the same time.

A 4-byte CRC on a 1024 block of data is a 0.4% overhead.  If you consider
that to be a major fault in a comms protocol, then you need to have your
ears pierced.

BL>> I did a search on 'ucp' and found a whole lot of shit (none of
BL>> it uupc, btw), but I've got all I need now (fxuucico and
BL>> compress.exe).

PE>> It's 'upc' you should have searched on.

BL> Think about it for a while, use your alleged intelligence, and
BL> you'll see you are wrong.

The package name I was telling you to get, was called UPC*.*, hence you
need to do a search on "UPC", not "UCP", so that you
can get a hit on a file called:

UPC19.ZIP No description given at upload

and

UPC20.ZIP Even better version of who knows what

and

UPC30.ZIP Something I picked up from the internet for Bob Lawrence

BL> I got quite a lot of stuff. The comms protocol seems to work. Now
BL> all I have to do is process it...

Oh, shit, I didn't realise you didn't have software to do that.  Um, would
someone like to jump in and recommend a you-beaut news reader for a crappy
MSDOS/Windows system?  I have heard of something called SLRN.  BTW, is all
that is needed SLRN, or do you need a "tosser" (equivalent of
squish/tobruk) in order to get the stuff into a form the newsreader can
handle?

So what is netscape anyway?  Eudora?  And what about all this crap that IBM
and Microsoft keep saying how they're the one-stop network shop etc?

I am under the impression that the whole world has gone internet, and
everything is really great and really easy on the internet.  At least for
end-users.

BFN.  Paul.
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