Subj : kermit protocol in syncterm
To   : Christian Sacks
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 14 2023 11:41:25

  Re: kermit protocol in syncterm
  By: Christian Sacks to All on Mon Aug 14 2023 11:47 am

 > Hey y'all,
 >
 > Just wanted to post it here as don't know where else would be better, I
 > managed to get the kermit protocol running in Mystic (I know this isn't a
 > mystic channel) and really would love it if syncterm could handle the kermit
 > protocol.
 >
 > Is there any way in it's current form there's an ability to use like an
 > external protocol with syncterm? or if not, what are the chances kermit
 > could get added to a future release of syncterm?
 >
 > After using it for a little while with qodem, I realise that the transfer
 > speeds in kermit are a lot, and I mean a LOT faster than zmodem for example,
 > and think we could all benefit from having that as an option on BBSes that
 > support kermit.
 >
 > Just my thoughts for the day, lemme know if you think it's a good idea or
 > not, and if there's a way for me to use kermit currently with syncterm.
 >
 > Thanks for listening =)

The place to make SyncTERM feature requests is here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/syncterm/feature-requests/

Most likely, any *significant* performance differences you're observing between Kermit and ZMODEM would be in the protocol driver/implementation (e.g. in Qodem) and not the protocol itself.

The ZMODEM protocol also has a lot of options that can impact through-put (e.g. windowing or not, window size, encoding/escaping of characters).

If you want the lowest overhead protocol, use YMODEM-G. It doesn't have all the same features of ZMODEM (or Kermit), but has the lowest amount of protocol overhead of all of them (besides plain TCP, e.g. FTP).
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