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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: How come Z-Modem is faster than X-Modem?
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 00:56:36 +0200
- Message-ID: <4jpmv4$ard@mips.pfalz.de>
- References: <4inro0$9mj@alcor.usc.edu> <1996Mar21.110405.6710@ms.philips.nl> <DouvCw.ME@bokonon.ussinc.com>
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- stephen@bokonon.ussinc.com (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
-
- > [ ZModem ] can run in streaming mode or in sliding window mode, in which
- > there's an outstanding window of some size and an ack must be sent
- > at some point during reception of each window size.
-
- ZModem *can* also run in stop-and-go mode. Of course, this is only
- useful in pathological environments.
-
- $ sz -L
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