High speed upload via kermit: help wanted
David Blythe
blythe at sgi.com
Tue Jun 25 11:42:32 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jun24.145331.12031 at ecf.toronto.edu> xiaoy at bullet.ecf (XIAO Yan) writes:
>A user in our system uploads files regularly from his Mac to a
>4D/320. His files are of about 500k. He uses kermit at 19200 baud
>link. However, he can only get 900CPS (character per second),
>which is only about 40% of the line speed. We also tried 38000
>baud (changing the source code of kermit a little bit...), but the
>resulting transmit speed did not change. Mac actually showed the
>efficiency of transmitting.
>
>Does anybody know a faster way?
>
I think zmodem uses a denser encoding and is generally faster. I know that
there are versions available for UNIX systems, but I don't know where you
would get a Mac version.
db
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