Xref: utzoo comp.sys.laptops:2594 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8829 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!agate!e260-1a.berkeley.edu!c60b-1eq From: c60b-1eq@e260-1a.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Comm programs, Crosstalk Mk IV Message-ID: <1991Apr21.085326.28167@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 21 Apr 91 08:53:26 GMT References: <1991Apr21.071509.13167@news.iastate.edu> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 In article <1991Apr21.071509.13167@news.iastate.edu> vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) writes: >Kermit is free, and does everything I want and need. There >is a brand new version 3.10 for Pee Cee. The only thing >against Kermit is that while the transfer is pretty >reliable, the frog doesn't jump awfully high---X/Y/Zmodem >are faster for most purposes. Not necessarily. On clean lines, if you set the blocksize to 1K and the check to a 3-byte CRC, you'll get decent throughput (that of YModem). And, as a block protocol (as opposed to the streaming ZMODEM), it tends to be a lot more reliable under non-standard conditions. It's too bad that MS-Kermit doesn't support sliding windows yet. *sigh* -- +==========================================================================+ | Noam Mendelson ..!ucbvax!web!c60b-1eq | "I haven't lost my mind, | | c60b-1eq@web.Berkeley.EDU | it's backed up on tape | | University of California at Berkeley | somewhere." |