Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!unido!rwthinf!cip-s08!wolfram From: wolfram@cip-s08.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: rufus Message-ID: Date: 12 Apr 91 11:37:29 GMT References: Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Lines: 11 chuck@mrcnext.uiuc.edu (charles bridgeland) writes: >[with the] internal Xmodem or Ymodem, it does a disk access every kilobyte. >Needless to say, this is not good. Is there a way around this, or are >you pretty much expected to use the external Zmodem that is provided? Using ZModem is highly recommended. My version of rz only accesses the disk at the end of the file, meaning that it receives the file into memory and then saves it after EOT. I have never tried the internal X/YModem. The external ZModem is much better, also because it starts automatically.