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Re: Many errors when FTP:ing over PPP

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From: Philip Stokes
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 15:56
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Mathew Hendry (m.hendry@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
> Andy Philpotts (xyzzy@nando.net) wrote:

> : but I wonder.  I use Artser, pretty stable, but only marginally better than
> : serial.device.
> 
> I'd go further than that. Really, unless your serial device driver is
> seriously hindering overall system performance (e.g. on a 68000-based
> machine), you're much better to stick with serial.device. I've never had
> problems with it, unlike with a whole load of third party versions which have
> appeared over the years. On a reasonably fast machine these reworkings make
> no noticable difference anyway.

Insofar as artser.device is concerned, it _is_ serial.device, with a few
bugs fixed, and co-written by C=. And it does seem to show a noticeable,
although not dramatic, speed improvement on even fairly humble machines.
That is not solely my observation.

Phil
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Philip Stokes                                   phil@stokes.demon.co.uk
Hertfordshire
England
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