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   Message 167 of 1,458   
   Roy Witt to Kevin Klement   
   packet/session   
   18 Jan 11 13:49:26   
   
   17 Jan 11 14:46, Kevin Klement wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    >> I think a packet password would apply to all of those. It's   
    >> no longer a matter of transport, but a matter of which   
    >> tosser/unpacker is in use.   
      
    KK> Isn't the packet password /for/ REX /only/ when it creates mail   
    KK> files.   
      
   Nope. AFAIK, REX doesn't create mail files.   
      
    KK>  Nothing to do with what the sysop uses for a tosser/unpacker.   
      
   True...but the tosser creates mail files in FD fashion that REX will use   
   to send the mail packets.   
      
    KK> Thats how I understood the REX doc.   
      
    >> I use FE, which does differentiate between session and   
    >> packet passwords, so I can't speak for those that don't.   
      
    KK> I use Squish, it just has a packet password option, I run Binkley   
    KK> here which supports a session password.   
      
   I used to use Squish, but I didn't like it very much.   
      
    >> like those of 'the Great Carmack' and can know what the   
    >> password is before attempting to unpak it.   
      
    KK> Hehehe.. I get it.   
      
      
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