Xmodem is an error-correcting protocol
for modem
that was created in 1978 by Ward Christensen and became a de facto standard. Modems that agree on
using the Xmodem protocol send data in 128-byte blocks. If a block is received successfully, a
positive (ACK) acknowledgement is returned. If an error is detected, a negative (NAK)
acknowledgement is returned and the block is resent. Xmodem uses the checksum
method of error checking.
See modem
error-correcting protocols for a comparison with other error-correcting protocols.
Contributor(s): Paulo Julio Achoa Mello
This was last updated in December 1997
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