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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Downloading with Kermit
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.205728.997@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 20:57:28 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.112254.622@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <ingemar.676555385@stuart>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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(1) I always download the ".hqx" text directly.  Then I use stuffit
1.5.1's "Decode BinHex File" option to make a ".sit" archive.  Then I
decompress.

This method has the advantage that it never fails.

kermit is perhaps the slowest download protocol in existence.  It is
slow because the packet sizes are too small (128 bytes).  If you use a
better protocol (xmodem, ymodem, or especially zmodem) you would be
much better off.  In fact, binhex + zmodem would probably run faster
than macbinary + kermit.

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