Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!swlabs!omen!caf
From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PROCOMM PLUS bugs
Message-ID: <647@omen.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 13:56:28 GMT
References: <9826@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <4686@ecsvax.UUCP> <3629@cup.portal.com> <4715@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon
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In article <4715@ecsvax.UUCP> mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow) writes:
:> packet size is 99 characters.  Does anyone know how to expand this to
:> 1000 characters to support large packet sizes in Kermit 2.30?  I am
:
:tility of a general comm package with multiple protocols.  But I 
:wonder if any implement Kermit better than Procomm.  

The current versions of MSKERMIT, Pibterm and ZCOMM support
Kermit long packets.  ZCOMM and Pro-YAM also support sliding
windows, I'm not sure about the others.  Phil Burns (PibTerm
author) reports PibTerm and ZCOMM attain about 740 cps
throughput downloading text files from CMS Kermit at 9600 bps.

If you want something faster, you need ZMODEM.


Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
  Omen Technology Inc    "The High Reliability Software"
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