Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Zmodem added to UUCP Keywords: Zmodem, UUCP Message-ID: <518@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 26 Sep 89 12:46:19 GMT References: <3602@escargot.UUCP> <3217@ccnysci.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 25 In article <3217@ccnysci.UUCP>, ciamac@ccnysci.UUCP (Ciamac Moallemi) writes: | | o Bidirectional transmission. A very good idea. However, it doesn't buy anything on many common half duplex dialup modems, and should be optional. It can buy a lot with a full duplex connection, but it looks as if a MAJOR rewrite of uucp would be needed to support doing two things at once. | | o Encryption | | o Data Compression There are programs to do this offline, which avoids the posssibility of the encyrptor not being able to keep up with the line. There seems to be little to gain by adding a lot of features to uucp for doing things which are easily done by separate programs. Adding features which are not generally needed makes the program larger, more complex, and less reliable. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon