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from: Winston Smith
date: 2003-06-04 09:53:46
subject: [--- WildCat! Kermit ---]

Interesting...  I am noticing two things about WildCat! Kermit
(Internal).

1.)  My downloads are exactly *DOUBLE* in size, and when I do a "hex
dump", every character appears to be "quoted" with a Capital
'Y'.  That
is to say, "abc" is received as "aYbYcY" ?

2.)  The packet length is always between 72-80 bytes wide/long.
     I should have suspected this.  Obviously Kermit is trying to send
BinHex's and UUENCODE's and popular NewsGroup Binaries formats.  I bet
the internal Kermit is how WildCat! originally imported and exported
NewsGroups, since an ISP mainframe without Kermit was like a day without
sunshine!

If I can just get rid of the 'Y' ACKing, then I think I can make this
puppy transfer....  

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