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From: jprice@astro.ocis.temple.edu (John Price)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: too slow!
Date: 10 Apr 1995 16:58:04 GMT
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Scott Hanson (sac87574@saclink1.csus.edu) wrote:
: It could be my ignorance talking, but kermit is the only file transfer my
: server has..I've tried raising packet size, opening more windows, and
: basically everything I can think of without guidance to speed things
: up..Why would anyone want to use this program? A 100,000 byte program
: can take 10 minutes? It's ridiculous!
Sometimes it's the only choice. For our IBM mainframes here, for
instance. They have a "one way at a time" communications interface. That
means Z-modem can't deal with it.
John Price