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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!genesis.demon.co.uk!fred
- Subject: Is a Sparc II too slow for my USR Sportster?
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- References: <1992Dec5.074743.28378@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:10:12 +0000
- Message-ID: <724349412snx@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Dec5.074743.28378@IRO.UMontreal.CA> laviers@IRO.UMontreal.CA writes:
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- >The line is good, but I get lost or incomplete packets, timeouts and
- >CRC errors on Z-modem downloads from the Sparc II we have at
- >the lab.
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- There have been a lot of postings here saying disable XON/XOFF and use
- hardware flow control. I agree where this is possible. But in situations where
- hardware flow control is unavailable (or broken) ZMODEM works very well with
- XON/XOFF flow control so it's well worth trying.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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