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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UNIX to PC File transfer
Message-ID: <9839@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 14:44:17 GMT
References: <1054@ur-tut.UUCP> <168@bdt.UUCP> <4655@teddy.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 15
Keywords: xmodem


  I think one of the points not mentioned in this argument is that
xmodem does its transfers in 128 byte blocks (CP/M-80 sector sizes),
while Kermit can preserve file sizes to the byte. This can cuause
problems when trying to unarc files which have had data added to the end
of the archive. Various flavors of xmodem use diferent fill characters
or just leave garbage in the buffer.

  For performance use windowed kermit or zmodem. Zmodem has the
advantage of being able to restart an interrupted file transfer,
continuing without having to resend the first portion of the file.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me