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From: ritzenth@bgsuvax.UUCP (Phil Ritzenthaler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DSZ downloads
Message-ID: <1922@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 17:02:55 GMT
References: <6208@swan.ulowell.edu>
Organization: The Land Beneath the Forest Moon of Endor
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In article <6208@swan.ulowell.edu>, boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator) writes:
> 
> When using sz on our Dynix system, and DSZ (2-08 was the last one I tried)
> on my PC running at 2400 baud, and I download a binary file, I get many CRC
> fail errors, some timeout errors, and bad data errors every 8K or so. This
> tends to slow down the progress of the download, especially when enough
> errors arise to cause it to switch to 256 byte packets. Sometimes it even
> aborts the download.
> 

Brian,

This is DEFINITELY NOT normal behavior.  I unfortunately do not have exactly
the same operating system as you, I have a standard, plain old 4.3 BSD on a
Vax 11/785.

We have been running zmodem on the machine for about a year now with no 
problems.

The ONLY time I have encountered problems like the one you mention is when I
was on another machine and telnetted over to the machine that had rz/sz on
it and then tried to upload.  The phone/VMS/ethernet/Unix connection had
timing problems galore then . . .

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