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From: rabbit@eddie.mit.edu (Warren J. Madden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: ZTerm 0.85 upload problems (SOLVED)
Message-ID: <1990Jan10.151156.21782@eddie.mit.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 90 15:11:56 GMT
Organization: MIT
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        Many thanks to those who wrote offering suggestions.  I had
forgotten that my Mac to Unix connection was via a DecServer 200.  In order
for the upload to work correctly, the port on the DecServer had to be set
for 8 bits, no parity, and XON/XOFF flow control.  Additionally, the
connection between the server and the Unix system had to be set to passall
mode, so that the binary chars would go through right.

	While the above settings did allow me to upload successfully, the
spead was nowhere near that of downloading.  Apparently, the server can
take data from the Mac not nearly as fast as it can dish it out, so the Mac
spends a lot of its time waiting for the server to digest what's in its
buffer.  At 9600, it took 71 seconds to send a 56K file (80% efficiency).
At 19.2Kb, it took slightly under a minute (42% efficiency).  Still, that
sure beats the heck out of Kermit.


Once again, thanx for the help,

Warren J. Madden
rabbit@eddie.mit.edu