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From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Kermit for JrComm?
Message-ID: <4314@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 29 Apr 91 10:55:28 GMT
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In article <22147@shlump.nac.dec.com>, kendrix_j@mims.enet.dec.com (John R. Kendrix) writes:
[...]
> Kermit is a real dog for transfering files.  Reason being that it transmits
> it's packets in 128 byte blocks.  Xmodem I believe uses a bit larger package,
> while Zmodem will use 1024 byte pages for transmitting data.  

Actually, Kermit normally defaults to 92-byte packets (user-selectable) and
XModem (aka Christenson protocol) used 128-byte packets (and padded the last
one out to 128 bytes if it was shorter).  YModem is XModem with multiple file
transfers.  ZModem uses 1K packets, as you said.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> JK
> 
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