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Re: UniTerm XMODEM bug suggestion

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From: Ed Beers
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1988 00:56
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Dave_Ninjajr_Flory@cup.portal.com writes:
>I used two different disk/file editor programs to try and make the fix to
>Uniterm xmodem and could not find the sequence described, 06 40 00 FF, I even
>searched twice for the supposedly correct sequence 02 40 00 FF and it wasn't
>found either. Looked in both the .PRG file and the .RSC file. Either Simon
>mad a mistake, or someone fixed it. I was looking at 2.0c edit 008. I don't
>know of any service that doesn't use CRC checking anyway, so I am not going
>to bother with it anymore, and would suggest that the rest of you forget it to.
>After all, Simon should have another edit out in a couple of weeks anyway.

I found the sequence in uniterm.prg about 50200 bytes into the file.  My only 
binary file editor had no search capability so I hacked a C program to do it.
Are there any PD binary file editors with search capability?

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Subject: Re: UniTerm XMODEM bug suggestion
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