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3 total messages Started by Roy Smith Mon, 18 Feb 1991 20:08
xmodem definition
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Author: Roy Smith
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 1991 20:08
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	I was just asked if I knew about the X-modem protocol by (of all
people) the boss's son, who happens to be a nice kid who's teaching himself
to program on a Macintosh, not to mention being somebody who, by being the
object of my doing a favor, could help me score points :-)

	Anyway, I looked around on uunet and sumex looking for some
document that describes the X-modem protocol but couldn't find anything
that looked useful (although I did find rather a few programs that talk
X-modem on a variety of platforms).  Does such a document exist?
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Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
"Arcane?  Did you say arcane?  It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"
Re: xmodem definition
#480
Author: Yves Forget
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 02:32
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In article <1991Feb18.200845.22387@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	I was just asked if I knew about the X-modem protocol by (of all
>people) the boss's son, who happens to be a nice kid who's teaching himself
>to program on a Macintosh, not to mention being somebody who, by being the
>object of my doing a favor, could help me score points :-)
>
>	Anyway, I looked around on uunet and sumex looking for some
>document that describes the X-modem protocol but couldn't find anything
>that looked useful (although I did find rather a few programs that talk
>X-modem on a variety of platforms).  Does such a document exist?
>--
>Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
>455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
>roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
>"Arcane?  Did you say arcane?  It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"


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Yves Forget                    forget at terre.dmi.usherb.ca (Internet)
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Re: xmodem definition
#483
Author: Yves Forget
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 1991 19:04
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In article <1991Feb18.200845.22387@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	I was just asked if I knew about the X-modem protocol by (of all
>people) the boss's son, who happens to be a nice kid who's teaching himself
>to program on a Macintosh, not to mention being somebody who, by being the
>object of my doing a favor, could help me score points :-)
>
>	Anyway, I looked around on uunet and sumex looking for some
>document that describes the X-modem protocol but couldn't find anything
>that looked useful (although I did find rather a few programs that talk
>X-modem on a variety of platforms).  Does such a document exist?

There's a file named xmodem.c.Z in pub/ArchiveVol1/unix-util/xmodem at
apple.com  (130.43.2.2).  If the kid is programming, he probly won't want the
program, but a specification to write one.

For a spec, there's a file named xmodemSpecs in /pub/specs at
tybalt.caltech.edu (131.215.139.100).

These are the first ones I got, but it may be available somewhere else.  Now
you just have to FTP the files to get your points :-)

As the question is frequently asked, I will add a few lines to say that you
could also find specs for ymodem and zmodem at simtel (26.2.0.74) in
pd2:ms-dos2.zmodem or in mirror at 128.252.135.4 (mirror of simtel).  I would
suggest you to try the mirror, since simtel is very busy.

Hope this helps

Yves Forget

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Universite de Sherbrooke       bo05   at udesvm.bitnet (bitnet address)
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