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Re: sz transfer rate




On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Gavrie Philipson wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Omer Zak wrote:
> 
> > Presently, I use FTP over SLIP/PPP rather than sz/rz as my file transfer 
> > method.
> 
> Omar,
> This doesn't sound too smart to do. In my experience, transfer rates are 
> *much* slower this way due to PPP overhead.

I don't care that much about this as long as I can at the same time 
download my E-mail or do a FTP transfer in the reverse direction or 
surf the Internet.  On the other hand, ZMODEM transfer ties up your 
serial link for this single task, and it can transfer a file only in one 
direction at the same time.
                                            --- Omer
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