Path: utzoo!utdoe!generic!pnet91!taob
From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Bug in ProTerm 2.2?
Message-ID: <585@generic.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 91 18:15:05 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet91], Etobicoke, ON
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From EWNORT@WMVM1.BITNET (Eric):

> 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. 

    Thanks for you insight, but I did not mention that a couple of other files
close to 2 megs each were uploaded successfully.  There would have to be some
serious line noise to force ProTerm into giving up the transfer.  Even if that
were so, it does not explain how the GS was sitting back in Prosel-16 when I
checked on it later.

    Someone suggested that the power went out during the transfer, which of
course rebooted the computer.  That is in fact what happened.  I remember
there was a campus-wide blackout for about two minutes Monday morning (right
in the middle of a Calculus lecture...) and apparently it affected the power
to the residences as well.

    Speaking of interrupted transfers, does ProTerm 2.2 support ZModem crash
recovery?  I noticed a setting for ZRPOS in the Defaults menu.  Does that have
anything to do with it?

Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."