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

  I had my foreskin pierced a few years ago, and I've never been all
there ever since.

  It's not the CRC overhead, it's stopping to check the other end
every 1024 bytes. On the tests I ran here with DIY comms (in Pascal),
I could get 5% faster transfers with a 16K block and no checks.

 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.

 PE> The package name I was telling you to get, was called UPC*.*,
 PE> hence you need to do a search on "UPC", not
"UCP", so that you
 PE> can get a hit on a file called: UPC19.ZIP No description given
 PE> at upload

  I was searcing the PCUG, not your brain-dead system. Do I have to
explain it to you? 

  There is no guarantee that a file is called UPC-anything Iin fact
there were a few like that in your list I have since binned) but it is
odd-on that anything UUPC will mention that it does UUCP in the
description.

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

  Gee, thanks.... what is it?

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

  From what I can see, I need a message base like squish, a mailer
like Binkley, a gateway like Watergate, and a reader like MsgEd. Why
bother? I can write one quicker than I can set them up!

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

 I downooaded all 4.7Mb of the freeware M$ Internet Explorer! What a
waste of 50 minutes!

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

  So... you went UUCP while everyone else is going SLIP/PPP! ROFL! You
really are fabulous, Paul! 

Regards,
Bob
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