roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (02/19/91)
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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"Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"forget@terre (Yves Forget) (02/19/91)
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!" -- ======================================================================= Yves Forget forget at terre.dmi.usherb.ca (Internet) Universite de Sherbrooke bo05 at udesvm.bitnet (bitnet address)
forget@terre (Yves Forget) (02/22/91)
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 ======================================================================= Yves Forget forget at terre.dmi.usherb.ca (Internet) Universite de Sherbrooke bo05 at udesvm.bitnet (bitnet address) -- ======================================================================= Yves Forget forget at terre.dmi.usherb.ca (Internet) Universite de Sherbrooke bo05 at udesvm.bitnet (bitnet address)