What is a transfer protocol in communications?
Well, if two people, or two computers wish to communicate, they must both be doing the same thing, or there will be problems. Protocols can be thought of as languages, although it has more to do with signaling back and forth on the amount of data that gets sent and received in each bunch, error detection/correction, and other good technical things. First, one computer sends part of the file, and the other computer receives. Then they switch, the second computer sends “I got it okay, send some more.” Then the first computer sends more data. Back and forth, back and forth, until the transfer is complete. There are about four basic transfer protocols: Kermit, Xmodem, Ymodem, and Zmodem. Unfortunately, there are many variations, or ‘flavors’ of these protocols, which cause the possible combinations to go into the dozens. Not all comm programs support all transfer protocols. Experiment with your comm program to see what it can do. The transfer protocol you select on SVPAL must be supported
