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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DNet and NET:
Message-ID: <1539@agora.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 89 21:02:45 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <6891@medusa.cs.purdue.edu:, by wolff@cs.purdue.EDU (Robert M. Wolff):
: Well, the problems I was having was 'read/write' errors, but I *FINALLY*
: tracked it down to 19.2Kbaud...it seems pretty reliable at 9600, but
: really slow...is there a particular reason for 'ExNext()' (ie. dir/ls)
: to take so long over net:?? Once a 'copy' gets rolling, it seems pretty
: fast, but getting it started and finding the file takes forever...

	I believe it was someting to do with the OS grabbing a very small
number of bytes at a time. That causes the drive to re-seek for each header.
(I may be all wrong about this though... I hadn't had my coffee yet when
I was listening to the reasons... :-})

: Has anyone used the 'netstat' command with any luck? I cant seem to get it
: to spit anything out on that window that it opens up...  :(

	Hmm, I'll try the version he released. I know my earlier one showed
info on the screen... 

: Anyway, nice software...I hope they continue with it...it's just what the
: doctor ordered...  :-)
: 
: bob
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