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  1. Path: math.ohio-state.edu!usc!usc!not-for-mail
  2. From: wawda@alcor.usc.edu (Abu Wawda)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
  4. Subject: How come Z-Modem is faster than X-Modem?
  5. Date: 19 Mar 1996 18:49:36 -0800
  6. Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  7. Sender: wawda@alcor.usc.edu
  8. Message-ID: <4inro0$9mj@alcor.usc.edu>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: alcor.usc.edu
  10.  
  11. I have the specs for the X-modem protocol and I see that it doesn't
  12. add much overhead, just 4 bytes per 128 byte packet. So how come
  13. Z-modem is so much faster? (Unfortunately, I haven't found the specs
  14. for Z-Modem yet.) Does it do compression? Thanks,
  15.  
  16. Abu Wawda
  17. wawda@scf.usc.edu
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