Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Zmodem added to UUCP Message-ID: <85571@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 27 Sep 89 00:18:17 GMT References: <3602@escargot.UUCP> <85418@pyramid.pyramid.com> <14730@bfmny0.UU.NET> Distribution: usa Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 10 In article <14730@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: >ZMODEM UUCP would be terrific for long distance links, both for the >excellent error checking.... Actually, the error checking is sloppy if you are using a non-error-corrected dialup lines. Whenever an error occurs, the sending side has to back up and retransmit starting from the block with the error, and that could be a lot of data. (Or has ZModem added per-window retransmission and I just missed it?)