nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) (01/30/85)
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My experience agrees with Rusty's. We have Umodem, Xmodem (4.2bsd
version) and Kermit on our Vax, and two different Xmodem programs for
our IBM PCs. We have so far been unable to get Xmodem to work reliably
to upload files, although it works fine in downloading. Our vax is
very heavily loaded (load averages over 30 are not uncommon) and poor
Xmodem times out and dies. We might get in and diddle timeouts, but
we took the easy way out: we run Kermit under identical circumstances
and it works fine. The h19 emulation in MS-DOS Kermit is superior to
any I've found (I've tried 8 of them) for working with "vi" on the vax,
and the ability to upload or download a whole directory with a single
command is hard to beat.
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Ed Nather
Astronony Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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