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From: milo@cartan.math.nd.edu (Greg Corson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Fast file transfer over serial lines
Message-ID: <689@cartan.math.nd.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 90 17:12:07 GMT
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From article <1990Nov16.133214.6978@bwdls61.bnr.ca>, by bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt):
> In article <36487@nigel.ee.udel.edu> smedley@udel.edu (Trevor Smedley) 
> writes:
>> 
>> So, does anyone have a sun3/unix version of kermit that will handle
>> higher speed data transfers?  Or a totally different file transfer
>> method that will allow higher speeds?  I am using MacLayers, which will
>> give 19200 baud, but I'd still like it to be faster.

I would suggest you try ZMODEM for file transfers at high speed.  It sends
data in much larger packets than Kermit and is much more efficient, particularly
when you're on an error-free line.  I've used ZMODEM at up to 9600 baud with
no problems...I'm sure it can go faster if necessary.

The programs you want are SZ and RZ for unix they are public domain and 
available from any well-stocked Unix archive.

For the Mac you can use many programs, quite a few different ones support
ZMODEM.  ZTERM is a shareware program available on most BBS systems and
works well.

Greg Corson
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