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  5. From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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  7. Subject: Re: Kermit tcp/ip
  8. Date: 15 Jan 1997 16:57:50 GMT
  9. Organization: Columbia University
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  15.  
  16. In article <5birb8$261@mirage.skypoint.com>,
  17. David S Cargo <escargo@skypoint.com> wrote:
  18. : I am using Kermit over TCP/IP and Ethernet.  I was wondering if I could
  19. : improve the performance of transfer of binary files by allowing some
  20. : nonprinting ASCII characters to not be escaped.  So, is there a simple
  21. : way of determining what characters will make it through a telnet session
  22. : without breaking anything?
  23. Only trial and error.  In C-Kermit 6.0, there is a new command, SET
  24. PREFIXING CAUTIOUS, that causes all the well-known problem characters to
  25. be prefixed and the others unprefixed.
  26.  
  27. : Alternatively, would using uuencode on the data before hand be more
  28. : efficient than having Kermit do its escape character method?
  29. Definitly not.
  30.  
  31. - Frank