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) --