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Article #791Re: About Protocols for File Transfer
From: Jeff Siegal
Date: Sun, 22 May 1988 20:34
Date: Sun, 22 May 1988 20:34
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In article <303@cfcl.UUCP> dwh@cfcl.UUCP (Dave Hamaker) writes: >Trick Question for the Day: > >Using ordinary asynchronous RS-232 full-duplex serial communications, is an >error-detecting/correcting file-transfer protocol possible which is as fast >as or faster than non-protocol transfer? If not, why not? If so, how? No; at the very least, you need to send some error checking/correcting information (checksum, CRC, RS ECC, etc.) along with the data so you can detect or correct the errors. This will make it take longer. Jeff Siegal
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!fenchurch.mit.edu!jbs From: jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc Subject: Re: About Protocols for File Transfer Message-ID: <9295@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: 22 May 88 20:34:15 GMT References: <303@cfcl.UUCP> Sender: uucp@eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 12