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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: buffer buffer who has the buffer?
Message-ID: <33803@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 89 22:10:28 GMT
References: <890804163352.555892@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <890804163352.555892@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>NOticed something interesting when running kermit under prodos 8.1 under
                                                         ProDOS 8 1.8
>Sys disk 5.0 (whatever version of GS/OS that is) -- previously when
                                                ^-- GS/OS 3.0
>downloading the disk would be accesed about every other packet; it now
>seemed to be accessed once or twice at the beginning, one in the middle
>and again at the end.  (this was a 33kbyte file).  I assume SOMEBODY is
>buffering up quite a bit -- is that teh new prodos 8 or something in
>GS/OS itself?

I can't explain the behavior you're getting, but GS/OS is not active while
you're running ProDOS 8, so that's out.  And ProDOS 8 has not been changed
to do large quantities of buffering, either.

Did you change Kermit versions or anything?

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