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From: dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Kermit (was Re: X,Y,Z modem for UNIX Sys V)
Message-ID: <4566@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 5 Dec 89 16:00:19 GMT
References: <425@deadpup.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West)
Organization: The Forgotten Legions of ... um ... er ...
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In article <425@deadpup.UUCP> paul@deadpup.UUCP (paul) writes:
>the MSDOS
>people want to get data from our just and rightous UNIX machines :-) and
>are finding kermit "too slow." 

Are they using a recent Kermit?  C-Kermit 1988 and later can use 1K
packets, which I find to give a 40% throughput increase over the
older limit of 94-byte packets, between a PC running MSDOS+Kermit
2.32/A and a Vax running 4.3BSD+C-Kermit.  

-David West         dhw@itivax.iti.org