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From: UD169430@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mike Aos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: .bsq revisited. . .
Message-ID: <90309.123843UD169430@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: 5 Nov 90 18:38:43 GMT
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In article <8526@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
says:
>
>In article <90306.153049UD169430@NDSUVM1.BITNET> UD169430@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mike
>Aos) writes:
>>I think his problem is that ProTerm doesn't handle binary kermit
>>transfers correctly.  That's why we're forced to use Kermit v3.87
>>(actually, it's really not such a bad program, and it seems to me it's
>>faster than ProTERM or Kermit-65 v3.86 but perhaps that has to do with
>>the way I have things set up.)
>
>        But are you (and other people who insist on using Kermit) on
>systems that ONLY support Kermit? I think Ymodem batch is the best
>protocol I've used so far (haven't used Zmodem since I've heard you need
>a hard drive to be able to keep up with it).. I like Ymodem batch since
>you don't have to type filenames you are dealing with on the receiving
>end of the transmission.
>        But even Xmodem is better than Kermit.
>
>        Some explanation would be helpful for my understanding of the
>insistance of using Kermit when presumably better (and as widely used)
>protocols exist.
>
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I'm on a nifty old IBM system called CMS....and as far as I know, Kermit is
the only protocal available.  Kermit v3.87 gives me about 238 bytes/sec for
ASCII transfers, and 130 bytes/sec for Binary transfers (at 2400 BPS), and it
does do BATCH transfers very nicely.
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