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From: Kent B Erickson <kbe@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: sluggishness of c-kermit vs. dos kermit
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 12:59:40 -0800
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In the customization file of c-kermit I had lines
which went
If fail set speed
It starts out at 115200 and goes down to 19200.
I may have to modify my earlier assertion regarding file transfer under
mskermit (dos). Today I downloaded a binary file under mskermit and got a
speed of 2000 cps plus/minus 100. Then I re-downloaded after calling the
FAST script. (It does all that unprefixing, minimal error check, etc.
and says "Use at own risk!") Using at my own risk, I found the speed went
up to about 2100 cps +/- 100. Anyway the file transfer under os2 +
obsolete version of c-kermit (of a different binary) was a little faster
(2500 cps), at least according to these single-time experiments. Still,
file transfer is slow no matter what.
If I use the "no speed negotiation" thing and set speed at 34.x ,
will that speed things up?
I thought perhaps I ought to get an even speedier modem, but now I doubt
very much that will improve matters. At one time I had a 14.4 modem.
Using z-modem and something called COMIT for dos (long gone) I
consistently got 2 to 3 k cps transfers. I am not knocking kermit, mind,
I like it, but I still think I should get faster (binary) transfers.
(Text transfers do not cause as much annoyance: usually they are smaller
and text transfer is (seems) generally faster. Perhaps because
compression is more efficient with text transfers?)
kbe