malpass@VLSI.LL.MIT.EDU (Don Malpass) (06/25/89)
Of the various things on simtel, which ones will work with a Z-100
for quick transfers between it and a "compatible" laptop? I've
been using my 5" drive as the exchange method, but sooner or later
plugging and unplugging the edge-card connector on the drive is going
to wreck the reliability, and it's probably not worth building a
quickie kluge box with a few IC's in it and a toggle switch (and
a power supply and a line cord and a front panel and .... You
know how home projects go on.) Kermit is too slow even at null-modem
baud rates, and anyway it's a bit of a pain between PC's.
Any suggestions?
don
Don Malpass [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa], [gandalf mailbox dead for now]
You know you're making progress when you get back to
where you were three weeks ago. 5/89 & 6/89ahd@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU (Drew Derbyshire) (06/25/89)
I use IBM-PC kermit and Z-100 kermit to transfer. For a short run with no flow control, other systems may be faster. Kermit is not on simtel, it is on cunixc.cc.columbia.edu in kermit/a with docs. -ahd-
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (06/25/89)
Also, turn off DC1/DC3 handshaking when transferring files using Kermit. At least, when I transferred ten megabytes a few years ago, it was much faster. -russ -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Democracy needs capitalism like a fish needs a bicycle.
ahd@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU (Drew Derbyshire) (06/27/89)
Do NOT turn off flowcontrol with Kermit, you'll get buffer overruns out the kazoo with any recent (post 2.29a) Z-100 kermit. In the rare case it can keep up (true only in an Alpha test version I shipped to a brave soul), there is no additional overhead if flow control is left on. I really gotta get that silly thing out the door... As I mentioned, some other tools (using ymodem I think) do better. This is because Kermit, designed for micro-mainframe use, assumes an unclean data path and quotes many characters. I never use ymodem, myself, but there exist many fans of it. -ahd-