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Re: ZTerm 0.85 upload problems (SOLVED)

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From: Willie Perez
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 07:11
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In article <1990Jan10.151156.21782@eddie.mit.edu> rabbit@eddie.mit.edu (Warren J. Madden) writes:
>for the upload to work correctly, the port on the DecServer had to be set
>for 8 bits, no parity, and XON/XOFF flow control.  Additionally, the
>connection between the server and the Unix system had to be set to passall
>mode, so that the binary chars would go through right.

Yup, I spoke to the administrators who reinformed me of the proper settings
and a command I have to issue upon connection.

>	While the above settings did allow me to upload successfully, the
>spead was nowhere near that of downloading.  Apparently, the server can
>take data from the Mac not nearly as fast as it can dish it out, so the Mac
>spends a lot of its time waiting for the server to digest what's in its
>buffer.  At 9600, it took 71 seconds to send a 56K file (80% efficiency).
>At 19.2Kb, it took slightly under a minute (42% efficiency).  Still, that
>sure beats the heck out of Kermit.

I got a full 98% efficiency on uploading as well as downloading.  The bigger
the file, the more the efficiency builds.  Usually within 4 minutes.
--Willi
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In article <1990Jan10.151156.21782@eddie.mit.edu> rabbit@eddie.mit.edu (Warren J. Madden) writes:
>for the upload to work correctly, the port on the DecServer had to be set
>for 8 bits, no parity, and XON/XOFF flow control.  Additionally, the
>connection between the server and the Unix system had to be set to passall
>mode, so that the binary chars would go through right.

Yup, I spoke to the administrators who reinformed me of the proper settings
and a command I have to issue upon connection.

>	While the above settings did allow me to upload successfully, the
>spead was nowhere near that of downloading.  Apparently, the server can
>take data from the Mac not nearly as fast as it can dish it out, so the Mac
>spends a lot of its time waiting for the server to digest what's in its
>buffer.  At 9600, it took 71 seconds to send a 56K file (80% efficiency).
>At 19.2Kb, it took slightly under a minute (42% efficiency).  Still, that
>sure beats the heck out of Kermit.

I got a full 98% efficiency on uploading as well as downloading.  The bigger
the file, the more the efficiency builds.  Usually within 4 minutes.
--Willi
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From: perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Willie Perez)
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Subject: Re: ZTerm 0.85 upload problems (SOLVED)
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