************ Sub: Protocols What protoclos can I use? ------------ C.HOGAN What protocols can I use with a C-128 besides Xmodem and New Punter? -Chris ------------ KEVIN.S The protocal involved has little or nothing to do with the hardware you are using, but rather which are implemented in the software. Various pieces of software for the 64 and 128 have supported Compuserve "B" protocol, Rainbow, something called Midwest protocol, & various terminal programs often support their own internal file transfer systems, especially those which can double as or were designed in conjunction with BBS systems. Why, exactly, do you care? XMODEM is a very popular protocol. It is hard to find any major system which doesn't support it, & Punter has quite a following amongst the CBM world. Most Most folk don't really care about protocls until they need access to a specific 1 for some arcane reason; do you need support for a specific 1? KeS ------------ DEB [*SysOp*] MIDWEST protocol is/was a Commodore only protocl which repdated NEW PUNTER. Its main claim to fame was that it worked so much faster wih CBM-CBM transfers of both individual files & whole disks that Punter had to revise his original PUNTER to NEW PUNTER to answer the "challenge". <> MIDWEST protocol was incorporated into MIDWESTERN, a popular PD program which made the rounds in 1984, if I recall, possibly late 1983. The "rights" to the protocol were obtained by Ron Hayden & incorporated into the RAVICS BBS, then modified into RAVICS protocol. Current versions of this BBS still support RAVICS protocol, as does his most recent releases of RAVICS TERM, 1 of the only two terms I know of which support RAVICS protocol. I believe that the shareware BBS program by Eric DeWitt & Joe Bizik, Far West BBS also supports Ravics protocol. Its an autodetecting protocol, once you login to a board running RAVICS software, it interrogates your terminal program to see if you are running RAVICS. If so, & your term program identifies itself properly to the BBS, file transfers do not require that you identify which protocol you use, nor what kind of file you want to create. Its all automatic. It also never caught on. *deb!* <> ------------ MICHAEL.M [-:SysOp:-] If anyone would like to see MidWesterm, let me know & I'll upload it. (ah... the good ole days)