sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Homicidal Lunatic) (05/08/91)
Ive been having a hard time with Zmodem Xfers on VLT. Basically, what sometimes
happens is my buffer overflows and I get garbage and the Xfer is aborted,
filling my screen with garbage for a few minutes until the unix system stops
sending me the file I requested. Any suggestions?
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\X/ cdibenedetto@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (05/08/91)
In article <1991May8.055523.14068@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Homicidal Lunatic) writes: > Ive been having a hard time with Zmodem Xfers on VLT. Basically, what sometimes > happens is my buffer overflows and I get garbage and the Xfer is aborted, > filling my screen with garbage for a few minutes until the unix system stops > sending me the file I requested. Any suggestions? One suggestion I have is to try and change the buffer size. Its under the external options in the transfers pulldown menu. I had a similar problem with it aborting downloads of over 100K. What happend was the buffer would overflow before it could be completely written do disk. If you have a hard drive, set it higher, if not, set it lower (I user 8K). I hope this helps. ---- Cesi Why are you so terse and dull tonight? Too much fiber in your diet causing you to to be flatulent and need to go to the crapper too often? -- The Usenet Oracle
RW1VSANU@MIAMIU.BITNET (05/09/91)
I had the same problem when I tried to use the default buffer size of 16K. The
first 16K would transfer correctly and write to disk, but after a couple more K
the transfer would abort with the VAX returning a "device not in configuration"
error. If I change it to a 10K buffer, the downloads go smoothly. I don't
know why this happens - it may be VLT or it may be XPRZmodem. Kind of related
question to this: does anyone know the VLT script/init command to set up an
external protocol and send commands to it (ie. so I could have my init file
change the buffer size to 10K so I don't have to do it by hand everytime I want
to download)?
RobBob //
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