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From: markb@unix386.Convergent.COM (Mark Beyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: FTP Sun<-->Macintosh using SLIP (TCP/CONNECT II)
Message-ID: <5950@unix386.Convergent.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 91 20:59:03 GMT
References: <1CE00001.ouf99a@tbomb.ice.com>
Organization: Unisys
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In article <1CE00001.ouf99a@tbomb.ice.com>:

> ...     but in terms of moving a file from one machine to another,
>XMODEM is both fast and widely available. ZTerm is even faster. An
>ftp over SLIP will not even come close to these tools. 

What is the technical reason that XMODEM and ZTerm are faster ?  I'm
not familiar with those protocols.

Thanks.

>tim.

Mark
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