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echo: locuser
to: Keith Richardson
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-07-30 22:18:46
subject: FTS-006

KR> what is your understanding of the case where the calling party has no
KR> files to send, should it send a zero length file or just do nothing.
KR> FTS-006 doesn't specify what happens in this case.

If you don't have the technology, you can send a "poll packet",
which is just a normal one of your packets, except there are no messages in
it.  This is what the brain-dead QWK users do on my system.

However, FTS-6 does tell you what to do, and that is use a
supposed-extension to Zmodem, in which you get the ZFIN straight after the
ZINIT (or something like that - let me know if that isn't in the docs). 
BFN.  Paul.
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