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From: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Moving stuff from one machine to another
Message-ID: <4394@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 88 17:39:51 GMT
References: <485@ur-cc.UUCP> <492@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <492@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>In article <485@ur-cc.UUCP> joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota) writes:
>=I have
>=already proven that it would be faster to use the floppy than to do
>=an RS232 transfer, even at 19200 Kbaud.
>
>I would be interested in seeing your proof.  I frequently connect two
>computers via their serial ports and fire up comm programs...
>

And there's Eric Meyer's  "zip" program distributed a while ago that
transfers files at 115kbaud (yes, that's 115k) using tricks like
Lap-link does to get the speed out of the UARTs.  Zip allows you to
specify files to be transferred with wildcards, comma-delimited lists,
and by directory name (entire directory contents), does a CRC verify and
can be used on COM1 or COM2.  The version I have is 1.2.

keith