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.