Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re:Re: Re: Optimizing cutting paths - The proof

Fred:

With all due respect, I have to disagree, Text is no more dangerous to
transmit than Zip's Binary files or anything else. Static, etc. has NO
influence on a file transmission. This is not an experience issue, it is one
of electronics and networking. You may indeed have had bad experience with
text files from germany, russia, etc., but the fault is probably with the
sender and something he is doing. If text files were at risk, so too would
be binary files. The whole internet would be falling apart. The transmission
protocols have no idea what form the data they are sending is in, to the
protocol layer , it is simply data, text or otherwise. To tell folks that
static, wire taps, etc can have an effect on their data is as upsetting to
some people as someone else telling you that there is no such thing as an
Absolute IJ curve, something you know to be intrinisically false.
The checksum system is not perfect, but its imperfections are not
limited to a particular type of file, its simply easier to see the damage in
a zip file or binary file because it won't unzip or run.

I have working with networks for 20 Years and can see absolutely no
reason text data would be less reliable than binary, or even how the network
could differentiate between the two, but noisy lines would simply cause a
re-send of the data. (which is always a binary packet anyway.) I think your
original problem is really that text data can be influenced by many user
processes before or after it is sent, and is, therfore a more unreliable
means of transferring data between end-users.

Sorry, couldn't help myself,
Art