v11i020: Idle demon

John P. Nelson jpn at genrad.com
Tue Aug 28 00:30:39 AEST 1990


>>                     ...  I'd be a little huffy about having my kermit
>>session killed in mid-download because I hadn't sent a keystroke in a
>>while.
>
>But, but, kermit (and all other error-correcting download protocols) send in
>keystrokes all the time!

Not ZMODEM.  ZMODEM only sends "response" characters at the beginning
and end of a transfer, or when an error is detected.

     john nelson

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