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Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit, more capabalities
From: cangel@famvid.com
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 05:28:58 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 2000-01-13 jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu(JeffreyAltman) said:
JA>: On 1900-01-07 jrd@cc.usu.edu(JoeDoupnik) said:
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JA> What I'm getting from the above is "Yes the HP can do better than
JA> 94 byte packets" _but_ "if they don't ask we don't force it on
JA> 'em". Right?
JA> No. Joe is saying that Kermit protocol has lots of features that
JA> may be implemented in different ways providing different
JA> capabilities. The HP calculators in particular having varying
JA> implementations each which provide a different level of performance.
JA> In most cases the calculators are limited to 90 character packets
JA> and require an ACK for each packet as it is sent because the flow
JA> control either is not implemented at all or is done very poorly.
How does the number "9x" keep popping up? A universal size that `fits all'?
JA> This has little to do with the strengths or weaknesses of the
JA> Kermit protocol but on the design of the calculator.
I did not make a reference to the entire kermit protocol, only to the
choice, or lack thereof, for the packet size.
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