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#: 4496 S3/TelecommunicationsForum unknown
    07-Jan-86 02:35:47
Sb: #4370-AmigaBinary
Fm: Larry Phillips/ICUG 74025,636
To: Russ Wetmore 76703,2010

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Russ, I was under the impression that the host end would not even realize that there were multiple files being transferred. In order to make it protocol independent, the host end must recieve a single transfer consisting of one or more files strung together. To do multiple transfers to a host consisting of many files that are to be stored independently would require knowledge on the host end or a simulation between transfers of all the necessary comands to set up each file. In the case of two terminals supporting Amigabinary, the problem of stopping in mid stream could be tricky, depending on the presence or absemce of a total crc/checksum for the entire block that could be part of a protocol definiton.