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echo: bluewave
to: BRUCE CLARK
from: mark lewis
date: 2004-04-06 21:21:48
subject: Re: My BBS access

BC>> BBSNETS doesn't have 1k Kermit so I have to exit to DOS if I
 BC>> have anything over aprox 50k to upload/download, otherwise I
 BC>> use G-modem (modems do error correction). I've found that
 BC>> too many errors creep in on files over 100k though.
 BC>> Apparently the satellite link isn't that good without
 BC>> software error correction.

 BC> What I referred to as G-modem is actually Ymodem-G.

FWIW: i don't know that i'd use any of the protocols that rely on the modem
performing the error correction... why? because the TCP/IP packets might be
corrupted before it gets to your ISP's modems and thus before it gets to
yours...

)\/(ark

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