Subj : Re: Pure DOS TelNet ZMoDem
To   : Stephen Hurd
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Fri Oct 15 2004 03:28 pm

  Re: Re: Pure DOS TelNet ZMoDem
  By: Stephen Hurd to Sean Dennis on Fri Oct 15 2004 04:53 pm

 >  > As Mark explained to me, ZModem is using ACKs and that slows it down terr
 >  >
 >  > I was experimenting with Kermit when I was running Maximus/2 and it seeme
 >  > have the uncanny ability to run wide open with unlimited packet size.
 > 
 > ZModem alwaysuses delayed ACKs... the only time that Kermit is faster than
 > ZModem is when it can compress the file using run length compression... so Z
 > files do not transfer any faster for example.
 > 
 > Kermitas of last time I looked at it used a fixed packet size, ZModem uses a
 > adaptive packet size... ZModem is also about 100 times easier to set up and
 > use.

Have you setup gkermit on your board? It's pretty simple.
http://synchro.net/docs/kermit.txt :-)

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