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     Kommentar till en text av CHARLES ANGELICH
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-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to MAURICE KINAL <=-

 CA> Hello Maurice -

 CA>> With all due respect for your knowledge of linux, when
 CA>> zmodem is the topic you sound like a 'newb'.

 MK> I've used it on linux over 10 years ago. So what? Also used
 MK> other modem protocols and when push came to shove zmodem
 MK> fell by the wayside along with xmodem, ymodem, and whatever
 MK> other {insert letter}modem you care to mention. The hydra
 MK> protocol was better I thought but look where that ended up.

 CA> Yes, but use of zmodem does NOT imply a direct connection via
 CA> landlines to a BBS. You seem to have jumped to that conclusion
 CA> for some reason and no one was referring to anything but the
 CA> protocol (generally over the internet).

 CA>> Windows may create tunnel vision where linux is concerned
 CA>> but apparently linux creates it's own flavor of tunnel
 CA>> vision?

 MK> If you say so. I just know that nothing I've seen thus far
 MK> has beaten ftp for file transfers of any type including,
 MK> maybe especially, on ye ol' dialup modems.

 CA> I have no problem agreeing that FTP is a good transfer protocol
 CA> but only a handful of BBS offer FTP transfers of FIDO QWK
 CA> packets.

 CA>> Honestly zmodem works and works well for QWK downloads.
 CA>> It's already _there_ within the BBS software and has been
 CA>> in use for decades.

 MK> Same with ftp which has a longer and better track record.

 CA> No, FTP does NOT have a longer 'track record' as being a
 CA> protocol offered by BBS software for FIDO transfers.

 MK> Definetly beats zmodem on every OS that ever was as well as
 MK> the ones still alive. Prove me wrong.

 CA> Possibly it does. I cannot say as I've never tested them for
 CA> comparison purposes.

 It's anecdotal however from the end user standpoint they appear
 similar in performance to me.
 Both wget and zmodem support download continue and clobber options.  
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