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From: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator)
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Subject: Re: DSZ downloads
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Date: 20 Apr 88 18:59:18 GMT
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In article <8036@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante) writes:
>boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator) writes:
>.> 
[My original article deleted]
>
>I just tried DSZ0414 the other day, connecting to an 8800/Ultrix machine.
>When I go in through a directly-attached modem, dsz works extremely well.
>(But through this modem, Procomm can use ymodem and do about as well as dsz.)
>When I login to the same machine, through a modem onto a campus-wide network
>called the Sytek cable, dsz shows the same poor performance that boneill
>describes -- a file transfer that was estimated at 12 minutes took over 75
>minutes! -- but Procomm is completely unable to establish a ymodem handshake,
>much less any transfer.  I know little about the Sytek cable (Sytek is a
>brand name), but I do know that it thinks it's 8-bit and it processes some
>characters including ctrl-S and ctrl-Q.  I'm kind of impressed that dsz got
>a binary through at all, in light of the performance degradation.  (Kermit
>works okay for text transfers over this line.)
>
>So maybe it's your connection to your machine.

As a matter of fact, we use the Sytek Broadband system here, allowing me to
connect to as many as 14 different systems. ProComm's kermit has been the
only good performer, either with text or binary transfers. YModem is
useless, xmodem (either sx or xmodem 3.4) spew forth errors, and ZModem
gives the problems mentioned before. MSKermit doesn't do too badly, but I
prefer ProComm for my communications. 

It seems that this is a limiting drawback of at least Sytek BBand systems,
and possibly others. I only wish I could direct connect to one of these
babies...

P.S. Anybody have any problem uploading using DSZ0414?? I tried to get it to
upload itself so I could post it, but at byte 20248, or something like that,
it stopped, and went into an endless loop of pausing, and then ERROR
RECOVERY.

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Brian O'Neill, MS-DOS Software Exchange Coordinator
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