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- From: rico@disaster.hacktic.nl (Rico Jansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: ymodem-g
- Message-ID: <rico.002t@disaster.hacktic.nl>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 17:25:00 MET
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Disaster Area
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- In response to Udo Schuermanns posting about modems
-
- > 5. Protocol: use streaming protocols, such as zmodem. Zmodem transmits
- > without having to stop until the other end complains because of errors
- > or whatever. This means that there is no "transmit-ACK/NAK" cycle and
- > transfer is as fast as reading and writing the information to disk
- > allows. I don't know how Ymodem-G and other protocols work, but I
- > suspect it's more a features thing from there on, rather than
- > performance.
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- Ymodem-G is a barebone stream-protocol, it contains barely any error-checking
- and should only be used in occasions when lines are good or if you are
- using an error-correcting modem. It is faster than Z-Modem.
-
- --
- Rico Jansen (rico@disaster.hacktic.nl)
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