Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!hoptoad!pozar From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Procomm (really Telink) Message-ID: <2512@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 06:51:27 EDT Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2512 Posted: Sat Jul 25 06:51:27 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jul-87 00:40:44 EDT References: <17231U0N@PSUVM> <2112@sphinx.uchicago.edu> <13507@topaz.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar) Organization: Syncstream (San Francisco) Lines: 19 In article <13507@topaz.rutgers.edu> msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: >Telink is used on a few BBS's I have seen all over the place. I don't >know where it came from initially. >Smitty Telink is an extention of xmodem. Tom Jennings (developer of FidoNet added the extention to carry file status information such as name, size, and date/time created/modified. The FidoNet protocol uses it for file transfers (sealink is being added to the protocol to get throughput up higher for long distance calles). -- Tim Pozar UUCP pozar@hoptoad.UUCP Fido 125/406 USNail KLOK-FM 77 Maiden Lane San Francisco CA 94108