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From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Kermit v2.21?  (was: vt100, etc.)
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.004400.18934@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 00:44:00 GMT
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In article <10098@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> nrossi@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Nick Rossi) writes:
>I think you may run into some problems trying to use Kermit at 2400 baud.
>It won't be because of the RS232 routines if you have the patch.  But the
>80 column screen drivers are such that the screen scroll takes too much
>time, and it doesn't take long before the receive buffer overflows and data
>is lost.

I have not run into this problem with Kermit 2.2, perhaps because I
believe Kermit uses XON-XOFF flow control to keep the sender from
sending too fast.  Of course, I could be wrong, but I have not seen
Kermit lose data.