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echo: commo
to: FRED BRUCKER
from: KEVEN PITTSINGER
date: 1995-10-30 18:38:00
subject: Default protocol

BJ> You can't - CIS-B is a client application only.  CIS prohibits
BJ> anyone using it in a server application (as a protocol choice on a
BJ> BBS, for example).
KP> Bummer.
FB> Kevin, just out of curiosity, why are you so disappointed?  What
FB> advantages do you feel that BPlus has over Zmodem?
Lot of old software packages only had Xmodem & B-plus built into them.  Some 
of them can't use Xmodem.  These are non-IBM clone machines, orphaned & 
barely supported, but still cranking, so they're not tossed away yet.  
Haven't seen Xmodem on a download menu on a BBS in ages...
Keven
 -- SRP 2.00 #1402: He's twelve cookies short of a dozen....
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