[comp.sys.mac.comm] White Knight v.s. ZTerm

gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) (06/13/91)

I am considering the purchase of White Knight 11.12 or whatever is the
latest version.  The main reason i want it is for the zmodem scripting.
Here are some questions I have:

1.  Does White Knight attain about the same throughput (220char/sec)
	as zterm in ZMODEM downloads?  How well does white knight do
	at 9600 or 38400 baud on an II-series machine?  ZTerm can 
	download about 3500 characters a second at 38400 baud.

2.  ZTerm has one problem I would like to see solved.
	(a) When you cancel a UNIX ZMODEM transfer, ZTerm spits out as
	    many as 1023 cancelled characters before it quits.  This may be
	    a UNIX problem, or it may be a ZTERM problem -- does White
	    Knight have the same problem?

3.  ZTerm has two features which I am not willing to live without:
	(a) It restarts transfers if the connection is lost or
	    if the background task is starved for CPU cycles.
	(b) It is very good at recognizing downloaded pictures (i.e.
	    GIF)

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