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- From: aa302@Freenet.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond)
- Subject: Re: XPR mailing list (was Re: XPR-Bidirectional)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.180933.21281@freenet.carleton.ca>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:09:33 GMT
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- In a previous article, pooler@vccnw07.its.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole) says:
- >In short: SLIP and DNET (the latter of which is really just a hack, sort of a
- >poor man's X windows) are not good examples of bidirectional protocols in the
- >sense that I mean them (that is, sending two streams of data *continuously* as
- >fast as the modem will allow).
-
-
- Not having ever considered running any of the protpriatary protocols such
- as Bi-modem/etc, I can not comment on them. When one looks at the modem
- lights and if one has an LCD display, the actual 'on the fly bps ratings',
- the assumption that Dnet and SLIP don't 'Pump it up' is one that is easily
- proven wrong.
-
- Try doing a SendFile of two large files in both directions with DNet
- some time and you might be surprised how well things go. There have been
- extended protocols where the packet size has been increased that will
- actually have better DATA rates (IE: More of the actual file sent per amount
- of protocol overhead).
-
- P.S. I thought your 'plug deleted' was amusing. I'm pushing freely available
- software, and you seem to be pushing commercial/licence required software.
- Who is doing the 'plug'? <grin>
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