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to: Bill Grimsley
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1994-10-09 09:35:12
subject: Twitter

BL> Anyway, on Paul's advice I'm just moving them up now, but for
 BL> some reason the PKT is still the same length. Christ knows how.
 BL> Why is it that these programs don't do what you want them to
 BL> do?

 BG> Perhaps it's just as well that they don't. Isn't there some
 BG> sort of CRC checking done, which would trash the PKT if you
 BG> reduced its size?

  No... there's not much in the packet header at all, just where it
came from and where it's going, date, time, password, and other stuff.
The CRC checks are done separately. I thought it'd have a length check
at least - but no. It's a bit slack, really, but I suppose the most
likely place for packets to be damaged is during transmission, and
ZModem does that anyway.

Regards,
Bob
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