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From: mike@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael James Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: COM-to-COM file transfer?
Keywords: RS232, file transfer
Message-ID: <3764@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 5 Jun 89 16:34:42 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael James Porter)
Organization: University of Delaware
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We found that MS-Kermit 2.32 worked very well for this.  We couldn't
get the zip program to do the transfer due to line errors (the
cables weren't too good).  Kermit received many errors too, but
it was always able to recover from them.

The fastest way seems to be:

Set the send and receive packet sizes to 1000 on both matchines.  Try
baud rates from 115200 to 38400 untill you get a resonable number
of retrys.  We were getting about 25% retries at 115200.

Kermit is available from cunixc.columbia.edu (I think !)

				Mike Porter

mike@vax1.acs.udel.edu