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Article #40625Re: XMODEM,YMODEM,ZMODEM,KERMIT Which is best and why?
From: Stephen M. Dunn
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 00:25
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 00:25
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If you can avoid kermit, do so for several reasons. It's designed
to work on a 7-bit data path, so it has an inherent performance penalty
due to this. Also, it uses miniscule packets (although newer versions
are supposed to be able to handle reasonably-sized packets ... but only
if you have a newer version at both ends of the data link). I'm not
sure if it can transmit date/time stamp information; I don't think it
can.
Between X and Y, pick Y if you have a reasonably reliable phone line.
It uses 1K packets rather than the 128 byte packets of XMODEM, so the
overhead is reduced by about a factor of eight (but if you have a very
noisy phone line, more packets will have to be resent). I think that
some implementations of XMODEm have added batch transfer capabilities
to it; these are standard in YMODEM (although I don't think either one
transfers time/date stamps).
I haven't used ZMODEM, so I can't comment except to say that it is
reported to be better than X or Y.
--
Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!cs4g6ag From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: XMODEM,YMODEM,ZMODEM,KERMIT Which is best and why? Message-ID: <25A14694.9576@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 3 Jan 90 00:25:56 GMT References: <32428@news.Think.COM> Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 25