Re: Zmodem Vs Ymodem-G(batch) in PT3

[danb@pro-nfug.cts.com (Dan Brown)]

In <estabroo.732732969@staff.tc.umn.edu>
estabroo@staff.tc.umn.edu (Eric Estabrooks) writes:

>I thought Zmodem was supposed to be better than Ymodem.  I have been getting
>about 400-500cps better using Ymodem-G.
>
>Any thoughts?

        Zmodem is faster than Ymodem.  However, Ymodem-G is faster than
anything else out there.  This is because it sends the whole file as one
continuous block, not waiting to hear that everything was received OK.  The
only problem is that one error will abort the whole transfer.

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