In Kermit's Defense (was Re: kermit speed)

[Peter Jaspers-Fayer]

Although Zmodem's protocol overhead is smaller than Kermit's, Kermit's
efficentcy can be boosted a LONG way by including the following lines in
your .kermrc file:

set receive packet-length 1024
set send packet-length 1024

(`kermit -e 1024` does the same thing, I think)

This assumes, of course, that the kermit on the other end can also speak
"extended-length packets" (most newwer ones can.)

The default is something disgustingly small (94), set back in the days when
you were not sure you could get even 100 bytes over a phone line without
dropping a bit or two.

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