Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!iuvax!watmath!watcgl!bmacintyre From: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: DNet multiplexing ( was Re: uw ) Message-ID: <9993@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Date: 31 May 89 16:52:29 GMT References: <50125@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <363@xdos.UUCP> Reply-To: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) Organization: UofW Computer Graphics Lab Lines: 44 In article deven@rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) writes: >DNet also supports *reliable* transmission of *binary* files (or full >directory trees, even) at a high throughput (~2200 baud on a 2400 baud >modem, vs. ~600 baud throughput for Kermit over the same modem) AT THE >SAME TIME AS MULTIPLEXING TERMINAL WINDOW STREAMS. You can read news >and download files simultaneously. True, the juxtaposition will slow >both your reading and the file transfer, but you spend a lot more time >reading than the transfer (of the text to be read) takes, and the >remaining bandwidth of the modem is used for the file transfer in >progress. This feature alone can be worth its weight in gold. No >need to start a transfer and go find lunch... A question for you. I've tried to do this, and it does work, but ... - is there any way to give one channel a higher priority than another, so you could have your terminal not slow down noticably when you do a file transfer? The speed you get is intollerable with a transfer going, since the transfer will usually have multiple packets sent out before any given packet of the terminal. - the other thing I would love would be flow control on the LOCAL END! I don't use DNET anymore as just a terminal because ctrl-S and ctrl-Q do not stop/start the data until a couple of screen after you press them, in some cases. These two things together would increase the utility of DNET by an order of magnitude or more! Of course, I still think it's a great program. I use it for all my file transfers now, just because of it's ease of use. >Ah, well... I can run it, so I'm happy. :-) Me too! I have zero problems starting it. Of course, I use a dialup phone line. -- = Blair MacIntyre, bmacintyre@watcgl.{waterloo.edu, UWaterloo.ca} // = = now appearing at the Computer Graphics Lab, U of Waterloo! \X/ = = "There's nothing the matter with BR that a shot gun blast wouldn't fix" cge = = "It's not my fault, fatboy!" - Felder, pilot of TL Student Driver On Board =