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- From: Pvestjen@ms.philips.nl (Patrick Vestjens)
- Subject: Re: How come Z-Modem is faster than X-Modem?
- Message-ID: <1996Mar21.110405.6710@ms.philips.nl>
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- Organization: Philips Medical Systems, Best
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- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:04:05 GMT
-
- Abu Wawda (wawda@alcor.usc.edu) wrote:
- : I have the specs for the X-modem protocol and I see that it doesn't
- : add much overhead, just 4 bytes per 128 byte packet. So how come
- : Z-modem is so much faster? (Unfortunately, I haven't found the specs
- : for Z-Modem yet.) Does it do compression? Thanks,
-
- As far as I know Zmodem is a streaming protocol while Xmodem is not.
- This means that when using Xmodem the sender requires an acknowledgement
- from the receiver after each block. In the mean time it just waits and
- that costs a lot of time.
-
- Zmodem does not require an acknowledgement after each block. I think it
- only sends one if an exception occurred. See the sender just keeps on
- sending and sending and sending ...
-
- Regards, Patrick.
-
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