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From: alh@hprmokg.HP.COM (Al Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: 9600 bps Modems
Message-ID: <13240032@hprmokg.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Jul 89 17:58:26 GMT
References: <3988@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: HP Networked Computer Mfg. Operation
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>The HST is great if you are just hooking up to a BBS to read text (i.e. just
>use the HST and computer as a terminal), but forget it for file transfers
>unless you use ymodem or zmodem.
>
Why would you want to use Xmodem or Kermit?  Those are slow at *any*
speed, not just 9600+.

I plan on getting 2 9600/19.2k modems for our Unix machine.  They will
be HST's!

We're not using them for UUCP so that won't be an issue.


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