CompuServe Messages

Garbage is garbage is garbage….it's that simple. CP/M added it to the real data when it wrote the file, because it was 'what happend to be after the EOF marker in the write buffer'. It could have been anything, all Ward Christensen did was make it all EOF's. To me data is something that is useful, and in that respect, Xmodem as used in the CP/M world was a proper protocol. In other words, it was 100% transparent to the user and to the real data. As to KCS, I agree it wasn't the best thing to come down the pike, all I said was that it was a 'standard' (good or bad) and as a result, gave manufacturers a common reference point. Commonality meant lower price.