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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Using UUCP over international phone lines
Keywords: satellite packet-size acknowledgment delays
Message-ID: <142266@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 18:44:09 GMT
References: <267@fgh.fgh.oz.au> <1991Jan24.033322.7924@iguana.uucp>
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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>2) use another protocol.  if the link is kept clean by hardware (MNP?)
>   you could use something like the x, f or e protocols that do less
>   error checking and basically just stuff the file down the pipe with
>   a checksum at the end of the file.

Don't use 'e'; it has no error checking at all. Don't use 'x'; it just plain
doesn't work (never has, and never will -- its design is flawed). 'f' is fine. 

Or use a TrailBlazer. On international links, it'll pay for itself quickly.

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