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Re: * NEW * Mandelbrot II GS 2.2!



In article <9404041606.AA04512@fert2.fe.psu.edu>,
Jason A. Jeffries <jaj4922@FERT2.FE.PSU.EDU> wrote:
>
>really did receive well. And to make things more confusing, the command to
>recieve with Ymodem is 'rb'. Why 'b' is Ymodem, I can't say... Xmodem is
>'xmodem (-s {to send} or -r {to receive}) filename...'

     True Xmodem doesn't support multiple files, so Ymodem was invented to
handles batches (i.e. "b" for "batch").  This was, of course, way back in the
depths of time before Zmodem.

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