Subj : Re: New terminal program
To   : Nightfox
From : esc
Date : Mon Dec 05 2022 12:15:39

 Ni> I liked having different file transfer protocols in the 90s using
 Ni> dialup, but these days, file transfer protocols seem largely redundant
 Ni> when using BBSes over telnet & similar.  With TCP/IP, thare are already
 Ni> mechanisms built in for data transfers, and there are things like FTP
 Ni> and SCP for file transfers over a network.  I've heard that older file
 Ni> transfer protocols like Zmodem and such can actually work worse over an
 Ni> internet connection than they did on dialup.

I believe this is correct - we're doing redundant error correction which I believe can get out of sync between sender/receiver and cause a transfer to fail.

This is a highly reductive explanation but I think is pretty close.

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