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- From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Amiga <-> VAX/VMS file transfers
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.161852.25657@fripp.ri.cadre.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 16:18:52 GMT
- Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Aug12.161852.25657
- References: <2149@fnnews.fnal.gov>
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- In article 2149@fnnews.fnal.gov, lilianstrom@krang.fnal.gov (If its too loud, You're too old) writes:
- >I'm using VLT from my Amiga 500 at home to communicate with the various VAXen
- >at work. I can transfer files with no problem using KERMIT but I would like to
- >use either XMODEM or ZMODEM to speed things up a little bit. I have the
- >necessary libraries on the amiga and the necessary programs for my VAX at work.
- >However, any attempts to download a file using XMODEM or ZMODEM fails with a
- >timeout error.
-
- If you're invoking sz on the VAX (and you probably are) try doing it like
- this: sz -l 1024 <filenames>. This forces Zmodem to handshake after every
- 1K of data. This slows things down a bit in theory, but is frequently required
- to get through gateways like the one you've described.
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