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From: brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: what is the quickest (most efficient?) File xfer protocol?
Summary: wrongo
Keywords: zmodem
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.224121.15936@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 22:41:21 GMT
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In article <3765@bnr-rsc.UUCP> lalibert@bcarh188.UUCP () writes:
>My brother once set up a download using ZMODEM.  He came back an hour
>later expecting to be logged out.  (Autologout when download completed.)
>But the modem was still chugging along with a block size of 1 byte!
>He quickly brok out and used XMODEM.  Turns out if ZMODEM feels too many
>errors are occuring it decreases the block size to reduce retransmission
>time.  But if the trouble clears up, it doesn't increase the size.
>What likely happened is the phone got picked up, giving mega noise, and
>dropping the block size.


Wrongo.  Zmodem will automatically increase the block size if the errors
go away.  Most likely, your brother was using a crummy unix implementation.


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