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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Zmodem upload problems
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Date: 22 Dec 89 18:14:46 GMT
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>The best answer is YBF (you be f....d).  The DECservers, especially the DS200
>have only small recieve buffers and will quickly overflow when used with a
>protocol that tries to send big packets without flow control, especially on a
>loaded ethernet.  

Same problem here, but not just Zmodem. Brain damaged DECserver/Gandolf
combination loses bottom 1/3 of page on long splats of output. I asked,
but got circular finger-pointing queue.  Oh well, direct works
great....

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