Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!NSWC-G.ARPA!snorthc
From: snorthc@NSWC-G.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  BLAST?
Message-ID: <8808232335.AA07214@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 88 15:26:55 GMT
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BLAST stands for Blocked Asynch protocol (I think) it is
usually done over serial lines.  It is proprietary, but
the company does have implementations for a bunch of HW.

BLAST gives something on the order of ZMODEM file xfer rates,
2 - 3 times Kermits.

The only way I can see to run BLAST over TCP/IP would be to establish
[Da Telnet session and run it over that session.  No matter what the
problem, it wuld seem there is a better solution.

Hope this helps

	Stephen Northcutt (snorthc@nswc-g.arpa)

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