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echo: cis.telecommunications
to: DAVID DE FEO 71630,721 (X)
from: James Jones 76257,562
date: 1990-11-16 22:09:46
subject: #8249-#Kermit

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    16-Nov-90  22:09:46
Sb: #8249-#Kermit
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: DAVID DE FEO 71630,721 (X)

You hit the nail on the proverbial head.  Xmodem was designed as a protocol to
ship files from one CP/M disk to another, and since CP/M doesn't know the
lengths of files as anything but the number of 128-byte sectors they consume,
that was good enough for it.

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