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Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit, more capabalities
From: cangel@famvid.com
Message-ID: <2otg4.4439$NU6.161022@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>
Organization: bCandid - Powering the world's discussions - http://bCandid.com
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:29:51 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 1900-01-16 jrd@cc.usu.edu(JoeDoupnik) said:
JD>Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
JD>In article <z7ag4.2580$NU6.47237@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,
JD>>cangel@famvid.com writes: On 2000-01-14 jaltman@watsun.cc.
JD>columbia.edu(JeffreyAltman) said: >
JD>>CA> How does the number "9x" keep popping up? A universal size
JD>>CA> that `fits all'?
JD>>JA> The original Kermit protocol implementation had a max packet
JD>>JA> length of 94 bytes. Unfortunately, this is all that most
JD>>third party implementors choose to support.
JD>> The 94 byte packet is devastatingly slow at today's modem speeds.
JD>> Wouldn't it be a worthwhile priority for this newsgroup and the
JD>> `team' to stress the fact that this is no longer the optimum
JD>> packet size and get the message across to other software authors?
JD>> I'm really not equipped to persuade them and it just becomes an
JD>> argument when I try to persuade them.
JD>> Charles.Angelich
JD>-------------
JD> But you are equipped to make the argument to us.
It's not an `argument' it's a suggestion. The subject is what this newsgroup
and the `team' are _about_. It's not what sysops and BBS are _about_. You
have an obligation to care about how kermit is perceived, BBS sysop's could
care less.
JD> The matter has been
JD>gone over in detail in public and in our docs for a very long time.
JD>The controls are their for use, so please use them in the manner
JD>which fits your communications environment. Those environments
JD>differ dramatically from site to site, so controls are rather
JD>necessary. Please tend to your environment and hopefully things
JD>will work well. Joe D.
I do "tend to my environment" but it can't "work well" when authors of
software hard code 94 byte packets into their software because all kermit
software was packaged with that as the default setting for many many years
(this is from your own website buried at or about page 7).
Charles.Angelich