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- From: gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu (Greg Kushmerek)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: OS/2, TE/2 & Zmodem
- Message-ID: <GKUSHMER.92Sep5182715@jade.tufts.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 23:27:15 GMT
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- Organization: Roger Mellie Enterprises, PLC
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- I've been fooling aroundwith TE/2 and so far I have an overall good
- impression of it. One thing I ran into, though, that I thought I would
- share with the rest of you, is a set of circumstances that adversely affects
- my system.
-
- I am running OS/2 on a 386sx-25 with 8 megs of RAM. My modem is a Zoom
- Telephonics v.32bis. Today I was downloading a large gif file using zmodem
- on TE/2, and I noticed that when I switched to the WPS (I run TE/2 in
- full-screen) the system load jumped up pretty high (I keep PULSE on to
- monitor how the system reacts).
-
- So long as PULSE did not flatline at the top, Zmodem performed flawlessly.
- Once, however, I opened another app and the process demanded all my system
- could provide. When I went back to TE/2, it was in the process of
- trying to resend the packet. To the product's (TE/2) credit, it was able
- to reestablish where the stream had been broken and transferred my
- file successfully.
-
- Further experimentation showed me that the episode was a direct result of
- my system demanding the full resources of the computer. Now I'm not
- going to be running out and buying a full 486 system anytime soon nor
- will I be buying any more RAM. So I am going to have to live with
- this (not s though it is all that serious).
-
- A couple of questions come to mind:
-
- 1) Has anyone with a larger machine noticed this either?
-
- 2) Is there a way I can configure OS/2 to give priority to
- Zmodem? Anything I could do to the config.sys file that
- might make a difference?
-
- Cheers,
-
- --gk
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