From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!kirk\!billh Newsgroups: net.dcom Title: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.624 Posted: Thu Feb 3 12:01:15 1983 Received: Mon Feb 7 00:42:53 1983 #R:peri:-17900:kirk:19300001:37777777600:320 kirk!billh Jan 27 08:11:00 1983 If you are looking for a general discussion of file transfer protocols, refer to a book by Andrew Tanenbaum called Computer Networks (1981). Specifically, there is a discussion of several variations of packet transfer protocols in chapter 4. - Bill Hunt HP Corvallis, OR