Subj : Re: kermit protocol in syncterm
To   : Christian Sacks
From : Ryan Fantus
Date : Fri Aug 18 2023 02:39:51

 CS>  MR> I havent used kermit since 1998 or something.  I'm pretty sure it had
 CS>  MR> problems with error correction and the speed wasn't great.
 CS> 
 CS> Kermit is about 6 times faster than Zmodem for me =)

I wonder if the inbuilt error correction in most file transfer protocols is more of a bug these days than a feature...tcp/ip already does all of this, so more error correction is just adding latency. If kermit has weak error correction, maybe that's why it's so fast over telnet.

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