[Coco] xmodem padding

[Willard Goosey]

>Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:55:18 -0400

>From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>

>Organization: Organization? Not detectable

>

>On Monday 23 July 2007, Paul Fitch wrote:

>>Is there an OS9/6809/6309 tool to strip off the extra padding that gets

>>stuck to the ends executable files?


I use ded for that.


>I always considered xmodem broken because of that, 


I don't consider it broken so much as... short sighted.  It was
created for CP/M machines which only track file-size by the number of
logical (128 byte) sectors used.

That said, I prefer ymodem or zmodem, because with those you don't
need to type in the filename twice. I'm lazy like that. ;-)

Willard
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