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From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Telebit Registers (was Re: UUNET Problems)
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 91 10:40:05 EST
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In article <1034@trac2000.ueci.com>, das@trac2000.ueci.com (David Snyder) writes:
> 
> Is it really a good idea to turn off ALL flow control?  I have my S58 set to
> "002" for Full RTS/CTS flow control.  If I can speed throughput without data
> loss, please let me know.

UUCP G Protocol *is* flow control.
This is what the whole sliding window protocol is all about.

Anyways, it is no problem to turn off all flow control, but having
hardware flow control probably helps a little in some cases. It is
always more efficient to control flow by hardware, than to require
UUCP to retransmit packets. However, in my case, tbomb is a Macintosh
and it is not convenient to implement hardware flow control.

tim.

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