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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Anyone know where SUPER-KERMIT is?
Message-ID: <2571@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 18:43:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 18:43:05 1987
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in article <606@louie.udel.EDU>, matthews@udel.EDU (John Matthews) says:
> 
> Does anyone out there know where a communications package with super-kermit
> is?  I know there is one on an Amicus disk, but I don't have it.  What I am
> mainly interested in is the extended packets?  I would like to be able to
> use a packet size of up to 1024 bytes instead of the default 96 (I think
> that's what it is).  You can get a fairly noticeable gain in throughput by
> using extended packets.

I've got a program here that does the trick, ATerm 7.3 by Michael Mounier,
Jeff Lydiatt, Larry Phillips, and Steve Allen.  I believe that sliding
windows Kermit, like WXModem and maybe ZModem as well, accepts a continuous
stream of packets, requesting retransmit on those that don't make it, and
thus avoiding a handshake after each packet is sent.  And of course, it has
the other advantages of Kermit, like multiple file transfer and intelligent
feature comparison that lets the transfer occur at the best mutual ground
between two servers.  Now if I can ever get a Super Kermit program for my
UNIX machine here at work...

> John Matthews
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