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From: blythe@sgi.com (David Blythe)
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Subject: Re: High speed upload via kermit: help wanted
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.014232.23411@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 01:42:32 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.145331.12031@ecf.toronto.edu> xiaoy@bullet.ecf (XIAO  Yan) writes:
>A user in our system uploads files regularly from his Mac to a
>4D/320.  His files are of about 500k. He uses kermit at 19200 baud
>link.  However,  he can only get 900CPS (character per second),
>which is only about 40% of the line speed.  We also tried 38000
>baud (changing the source code of kermit a little bit...), but the
>resulting transmit speed did not change. Mac actually showed the
>efficiency of transmitting.
>
>Does anybody know a faster way?
>
I think zmodem uses a denser encoding and is generally faster.  I know that
there are versions available for UNIX systems, but I don't know where you
would get a Mac version.
	db