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Summary Of: XMODEM

XMODEM became extremely popular in the early... development of a number of modified versions of XMODEM to improve performance or address other problems with the protocol... led to the demise of all of these XMODEM derivatives in the early 1990s... The original XMODEM used a 128... XMODEM instead made the receiver trigger the transfer when it was ready... XMODEM was written for CP... in the early 1980s led to XMODEM having to be updated to notice either a... XMODEM was designed for simplicity... Many authors introduced extensions to XMODEM to address these and other problems... Another problem with XMODEM was that it required the transfer to be user... ons to the XMODEM protocol were implemented over time... An XMODEM file transfer starts with the receiver sending a single... aware XMODEM implementation this data would simply be ignored while it waited for the... could be corrupted by the same problems that XMODEM was attempting to avoid... Whereas a normal XMODEM transfer would start with the sender sending... a normal XMODEM implementation would simply discard the packet... XMODEM if the sender didn... Since the XMODEM protocol required the sender to stop and wait for an... A number of new versions of XMODEM were introduced in order to address these problems... this led to a further fracturing of the XMODEM landscape in the user... transfer could be started with any implementation of XMODEM on the other end...

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