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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer T. H.)
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Subject: Re: .bsq revisited. . .
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Date: 7 Nov 90 23:02:20 GMT
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... unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:

>	... are you (... 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.

Unfortunately Kermit is the only one I have available.  Even the Xmodem
and Ymodem on this system don't like my ProTERM.  (Helpdesk can't help me,
since their IIe is unenhanced.)  Plus Kermit can handle the CPU delays on
a multiuser system better than anything else I have tried.  (Another
system I have access to has Ymodem Batch, but likes to stop due to timeout
errors.  Now it doesn't like to work at all.)

Oh well, I'll just keep FTPing the files to a Mac SE, then sending them to
my home machine (or, more likely, to a local BBS where I'm a co-sysop,
then to my home machine).

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