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- From: howes@jomby.cs.wisc.edu (Glenn Howes)
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- Subject: Re: How to increase the download speed in Kermit by high speed modem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.101458.2420@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 10:14:58 GMT
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- Actually, this default is due to expansion of the Kermit Protocol over
- the years. Originally, the protocal allowed for packets with a maximum
- size of 94 --one byte of a packet was devoted to specifying the length
- this byte could only take value corresponding to printable 7-bit ASCII
- characters, there are 94 of these space through tilde-- therefore every
- Kermit program ever written should be assumed to accept size 94 packets.
- If you specify this value, that is what you will get, if you specify some
- higher value, you might get it, and you might not, it all depends on
- whether or not both receiver and sender support later additions to the
- protocal (the first of which extended the max length to 95^2 and the
- second to 95^3). If you try for a larger packet and it is not supported
- you will default back to 94 (hopefully).
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- An excellant reference to this is "Kermit: A File Transfer Protocol" by
- Frank da Cruz. Digital Press .
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- :wq
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- space to tilde, and since
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