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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UUCP Summary
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Date: 28 Dec 90 02:12:20 GMT
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lron@easy.hiam (Dwight Hubbard) in <186bb776.ARN08b4@easy.hiam> writes:

	Yes, but your probably not using compressed batching either.

True.  Most my UUCP traffic comprises project data, text files, tar files,
and email.  No Usenet "news" at all.

	Tell me about it.  We are experiencing satilite delays around a second
	on my only major long distance connect (Hawaii to Virgina).

Yikes!  That explains part of your problem.  Reminds me of calling, say,
France, where it's 50-50 whether I get a land-line or satellite link; the
difference IS noticeable.

	At 9600 it doesn't take the modem a second to transmit all 7 frames
	and the modem sits inactive as the ACKs go back over the line.  This
	is the same problem that was being discused about a month ago on in
	comp.dcom.modems.

Interesting.  But looking at my modems while UUCP'ing it appears the ACKs are
asynchronous (i.e. data transfer appears continuous and unbroken, and the ACKs
are just a "blip" on the LED with no interruption of data flow).  And thanks
for the reference to "comp.dcom.modems"; another group to add to my
subscription list.

	I would love to get a hold of the 'e' protocol for the Amiga, but I
	understand you need an AT&T source license to get the source for it :-(

Sorry, even with my contacts at AT&T I cannot get source without a license, and
the only AT&T source I've seen is that which has been released to the PD by
AT&T (such as getopt()).

	MNP isn't bad (we have several modems I work with that have it).  But
	most companies don't license any of the MNP levels above MNP-5 since
	MNP 1-4 are all that are needed for V.42 compliance.

I still "qualify" modems for use with my and clients' products and, at any
given time, may have up to ten sets of modems here besides my own.  I'm
presently testing the Microcom QX (MNP 9 and 38,400 baud).

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]