From: alawrenc@sobeco.com (a.lawrence) Subject: Re: Transferring files over a serial port Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 21:34:51 GMT
In <TYTSO.92Sep12122541@tsx-11.mit.edu> tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.235758.7569@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
> There's kermit. It's got a high packet overhead, since the packets are
> small.....
>The packet overhead doesn't have to be large.... You can adjust the
>packet size of kermit; and you can also turn on sliding windows, which
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>on Unix machines (including Linux). Anyway, here it is:
>set flow none
>set parity space
>set window 5
>set receive packet 512
>set send packet 512
>set block-check 3
>set file type binary
>set file name literal
I use a similar setup with packet size set to 1024, window to 7, and
parity none to do binary transfers from a MIPS system. Through-put
is about 80-90% of doing a transfer with Z-Modem.
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