On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 15:51:07 -0500
Stephen Pereira <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Willard, and thanks a million for letting me know this!
> 
No problem.

> I’ve been pulling my hair out, trying to figure out what I was
> missing.  Why in the world did it end up this way?  Why would folks
> make an XMODEM program and advertise it as a way to handle .CO files,

I always assumed that the xmodem authors simply didn't have the
documentation about writing .CO files available.  It turns out that
writing .CO files from a .CO is complicated and fragile. (See this list
archive over the last (gaaa!) 2 years, where I had MANY questions about
making that work...)

> but then they don’t?  Too weird for me!  I am so glad to know that I
> am not totally incompetent!
> 
To be fair, it is in the docs for xmodem.ba and xmdpw.ba that they only
support transferring ASCII files.. ;-)

Willard
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Willard Goosey  [email protected]
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night.
  -- R.E. Howard

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