Subj : Re: kermit protocol in syncterm
To   : Christian Sacks
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Aug 17 2023 11:01 pm

  Re: Re: kermit protocol in syncterm
  By: Christian Sacks to MRO on Fri Aug 18 2023 01:38 am

 > On 17 Aug 2023, MRO said the following...
 >
 >  MR> I havent used kermit since 1998 or something.  I'm pretty sure it had
 >  MR> problems with error correction and the speed wasn't great.
 >
 > Kermit is about 6 times faster than Zmodem for me =)

And how fast is that? Is possible that the Qodem Zmodem implementation is just slower than its Kermit implementation?

 > It's working flawlessly, and I just wish every BBS now had Kermit.
 >
 >  MR> did you try ymodem G ilke dm suggested? you might be happier with it.
 >
 > I did try Ymodem, and it's about the same speed as Zmodem.

The suggestion was to try Ymodem-G. Ymodem should normally be much slower than Zmodem over any kind of decent transport due to its ack/nak nature.
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