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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan/9999999)
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Subject: Re: Kermit (was Re: X,Y,Z modem for UNIX Sys V)
Keywords: ZMODEM fastest
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Date: 5 Dec 89 22:30:17 GMT
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In article <4566@itivax.iti.org>, dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West) writes:
> 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.  

ZMODEM will still be a little faster under ideal circumstances, but
the real beauty of ZMODEM is when you don't have a perfect (i.e.
phone) connection because of its adaptive packet sizes. It also
supports real-time data compression (for those that don't want to have
to bother using compress before transferring text files). All in all,
ZMODEM is the way to go. UNIX C source is available in one of the MISC
or UNIX-C directories on simtel20. The same source also performs
batch ymodem or xmodem transfers...

						Ron

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