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From: tdsmith@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Slow _binary_ download/fast text download?
Message-Id: <1994Nov24.151213.78500@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 24 Nov 94 15:12:13 CDT
References: <1994Nov23.225128@clstac> <3b2f39$5pq@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <3b2f39$5pq@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
> In article <1994Nov23.225128@clstac>,
> Kevin Anthony Stanchfield <kastanchfiel@csupomona.edu> wrote:
>>First of all, I would like to thank you all for your help in gitting
>>my machine to download binary al well as text files... The "SET PARITY
>>SPACE" worked!! No I got a new prob., the transfers are soooo slow!
>>And, they never finish, the always fail. I'm using a 14.4 to call up a
>>9600 baud telnet site to connect to my university. Hardware flow control,
>>7s1, set parity space, windows 4, port speed is 57.6K, I'm using MS-Kermit
>>3.14,... What else it there?
>>
> Long packets. Tell the file receiver to "set receive packet-length 1000"
> or thereabouts.
>
> Control-character unprefixing. Read about this in the KERMIT.UPD file.
>
> The real question remains: why are your transfers failing? Let's figure
> this one out, and then we can make them as fast as possible.
>
> Tell MS-DOS Kermit to "log packet", then try to transfer a file. Then
> tell MS-DOS Kermit to "close packet", and send the resulting PACKET.LOG
> file by e-mail to kermit@columbia.edu for analysis.
>
> - Frank
Just to add a data point: with a high load on the computer that I'm
posting from (a DEC 7000), transfers will hang sometimes. MS-Kermit
will then go into its retry cycle. I've had it time out, even with
retries set to 63. Fortunately, it's a rare occurrence.
Good luck.
Troy Smith