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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:25:00 EST
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- From: "John F. Chandler" <JCHBN@CUVMB.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: kermit
- In-Reply-To: MOORE@GE1VM.SCHDY.GE.COM message of Sun, 3 Jan 1993 14:22:01 EDT
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- > I have heard about the kermit "long packets" for some time but I haven't
- > been able to figure it out from the documentation that I have available.
-
- What documentation do you have? The various chapters of the Kermit
- User's Guide are available via e-mail from KERMSRV@CUVMB and via
- anonymous FTP from watsun.cc.columbia.edu. For example, the CMS portion
- is available as ikcker.doc or ikcker.lpt or ikcker.ps (respectively,
- unpaginated, paginated using columnm-1 carriage control, and PostScript).
- The MS-DOS Kermit portion is mskermit.doc.
-
- > Can anyone S P E L L out the incantation that needs to be used to do this?
-
- There is no single recipe. It depends on the environment. For
- example, if you are downloading from CMS to MS-DOS, the default is to
- use long packets, but the communications hardware may, in fact, impose
- a limitation on the transmittable packet length. In principle, the
- longer the packets, the better the throughput, so you may need to do
- some reading or experimenting to find the best length. For uploading
- to CMS, the default packet size is 94, so you will need to issue
- SET RECEIVE PACK nnn (where "nnn" is the biggest length available).
- Note that SET SEND PACK is almost never needed.
- John
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