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Re: * NEW * Mandelbrot II GS 2.2!



In article <9404041606.AA04512@fert2.fe.psu.edu> jaj4922@FERT2.FE.PSU.EDU (Jason A. Jeffries) writes:
>And to make things more confusing, the command to
>recieve with Ymodem is 'rb'. Why 'b' is Ymodem, I can't say...

"B" for "batch."  (YMODEM is a batch protocol; XMODEM isn't.  Granted,
ZMODEM is also a batch protocol, but I'd guess that "rb" predates
ZMODEM.)

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