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From: carlf@agora.rain.com (Carl Fago)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Can I ....
Message-ID: <1991May10.025438.20331@agora.rain.com>
Date: 10 May 91 02:54:38 GMT
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In article <1991May9.211233.11380@cse.uta.edu> khwang@cse.uta.edu (khwang) writes:
>Hello computer gurus,
>
>I have 2 questions for you.
>1. How can I change my drive when I download my data from mainframe to
>PC using PROCOMM ? The default drive is A which is intolerrably slow.

Procomm setup has a download directory entry.  Just put the disk drive letter
in front of the directory (with the colon of course).
>
>2. Do we have a fast way to transfer binary file using PROCOMM ?
>Currently I use Kermit to transfer binary file via PROCOMM, it is TOOOOO
>slow !!!! 

I use Ymodem but it depends on what your mainframe supports.  If Kermit is
order of magnitude too slow, then you need to get a faster modem.

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