Subj : Fdsz
To : Mike Powell
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Dec 19 2006 10:40 am
MP> I have wondered if Ymodem-G is appropriate to have available on a
MP> telnet bbs. The caller may have dialed-into their ISP using an
MP> error-correcting modem, but I don't think that the cable modem on
MP> this end is. ;-)
TCP/IP has built in error detection and correction... however, it doesn't
always work as it should... case in point is that the BINKP folk had to go back
and add error detection because there were cases and times that the data
arrived at the other end incomplete or otherwise corrupted...
