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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
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Subject: Re: review of Practical Peripherals 9600SA
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Date: 4 Dec 90 02:59:01 GMT
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In article <25717@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> dwatney@pine.circa.ufl.edu writes:
>In article <28577@usc>, kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes...
>>I was using zmodem.  MNP5 made throughput worse with text files!  I
>>can't explain this.
>
>Any chance that you had the zmodem compression option on?  

Only if it is the default.  I don't know how to turn it on, and I have
never used it.  I highly doubt that the zmodem protocol was doing any
compression, but I could be wrong.

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