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From: EWNORT@WMVM1.BITNET (Eric)
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Subject: Re: Bug in ProTerm 2.2?
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Date: 19 Mar 91 22:49:34 GMT
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Brian,
      It seems fairly obvious what problem you encountered while uploading your
absurdly huge file to the local BBS.  I have calculated that at a respectable
rate of 2400 bps, your 2.2 M (or 2,200,000 bytes) would have taken just a
little over 2 hours to upload (double that time at 1200, and 8 times at 300).
During this never-ending phone conversation with the computer at the other end,
It is highly likely that some sort of interference caused a disruption in the
transfer, Zmodem detected this, and interuppted your communications program.
For this reason, I doubt that this is an error in the software you speak of,
but rather an error in judgement on your part.  It would be prudent to break
this huge file you speak of into smaller parts so that you may reduce the
transmission time.  This would also be beneficial in the sense that if this
happened again, it would not require the entire time to re-send.  I hope this
is helful.

Eric...