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From: wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Background Downloading
Keywords: kermit
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Date: 4 Jan 91 15:28:36 GMT
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In <7966@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600phnx@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Phoenix / Fig) asks:

>(1000K).  I know that all of these neat Multitasking OS's (Win 3 & DV)
>could and do work, but the throughput is lousy.  So, anybody find
>anything good - PD or noPD.  Of course I would also enjoy X/Y/Z modem
>support, but Kermit is a must and most of the progs that I've seen do
>not have a decent Kermit.

If you want ONLY kermit, go with the original (MS-kermit3.01); tune DV
to give kermit more quanta while it is background down-loading and
fewer quanta to you working in the forground as well as fewer quanta to
other bg tasks.

Kermit's bandwidth for binary compressed files is not as good as zmodem or
uupc.  Kermit's bandwidth (using large packets) for text is ok.

wnqvt451.zip is a shareware terminal emulator with zmodem and extended
packet kermit.  It is available on simtel20 and the simtel20 mirrors sites.
Running this package on someone else's PC, I found the background
zmodem downloading to be acceptably fast.  wnqvt is aggressive about
grabbing quanta from windows.

* * *

I have not yet purchased windows for my PC; can anyone recommend a good
source (price, future updates?)  I will not run pirated software on my PC!
Windows is relatively inexpensive, though desqview seems better for my
purposes.  Suggestions?