[comp.sys.apple2] DL'ing

gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (02/03/91)

In article <7912@plains.NoDak.edu> swiers@plains.NoDak.edu (Mike Swiers ) writes:
>P.S.  I think all it's doing is "catting" the files...

Aye, and there's the rub.  You don't get any error detection/correction,
which all the download protocols support in one form or another.  Unless
there is some good checksum attached to the catted file, it could get
corrupted by line noise etc.