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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: DSZ ZMODEM problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.173542.7083@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 19 Mar 91 17:35:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.190010.21805@cs.wayne.edu> <1991Mar18.151002.1423@crom2.uucp> <t22918.669356612@ursa>
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In article <t22918.669356612@ursa> t22918@ursa.calvin.edu (Matt Ranney) writes:

>  All calls on our campus go through
>various terminal servers.  These terminal servers are connected to the
>various machines via a 38K baud Ethernet link.   But, since the
>highest supported incoming line's speed is 9600 baud, at LOT of
>bufferig is taking place in the terminal server.  So, say you get one
>error, your terminal tries to tell the host that you have an error,
>but the host still has 8 or 9K more of data that you are going to get
>wether you like it or not.

Use the -l number command line option for sz with a number from 32
to 1024 to force it to stop sending until the ack's arrive.  If
you think you are having trouble with control characters at the
terminal server you can also use -e to escape all control characters.

Les Mikesell
 les@chinet.chi.il.us