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- From: Philip Stokes <phil@stokes.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Many errors when FTP:ing over PPP
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 15:56:12 GMT
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- Mathew Hendry (m.hendry@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
- > Andy Philpotts (xyzzy@nando.net) wrote:
-
- > : but I wonder. I use Artser, pretty stable, but only marginally better than
- > : serial.device.
- >
- > I'd go further than that. Really, unless your serial device driver is
- > seriously hindering overall system performance (e.g. on a 68000-based
- > machine), you're much better to stick with serial.device. I've never had
- > problems with it, unlike with a whole load of third party versions which have
- > appeared over the years. On a reasonably fast machine these reworkings make
- > no noticable difference anyway.
-
- Insofar as artser.device is concerned, it _is_ serial.device, with a few
- bugs fixed, and co-written by C=. And it does seem to show a noticeable,
- although not dramatic, speed improvement on even fairly humble machines.
- That is not solely my observation.
-
- Phil
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