BL> I have no affection for zmodem... it just happened to be there.
 BL> It's a totally brain-dead protocol in 1997 with error
 BL> correcting modems runnign at high speed.

 PE> Zmodem is brain-dead? Why?

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

 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.

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

 PE> Incidentally, someone (maybe you) sent me something compressed
 PE> with gzip

  No...

 PE> The newsgroups I have don't actually go to anyone else on the
 PE> internet. I know how to feed newsgroups that I fetch from the
 PE> internet to you, but not the other way around (yet). Although
 PE> ones that other UUCP sites send to me directly do (I think) go
 PE> out to you automatically. 

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

Regards,
Bob


 
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