Subj : Re: zmodem
To   : Frank
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 03:49 pm

  Re: Re: zmodem
  By: Frank to Digital Man on Thu Sep 01 2005 07:43 pm

 >   Re: Re: zmodem
 >   By: Digital Man to Frank on Thu Sep 01 2005 11:50 am
 > 
 >  > Zmodem has quite a bit more overhead than FTP, so it should be (and is
 >  > according to all my measurements) still slower than FTP. <shrug>
 > 
 >    The overhead being the error checking data?

A bit more than that. Basically, Zmodem wasn't designed to run over a reliable
protocol (which TCP is), so it's over-kill for file transfer. FTP just streams
bytes over TCP, so there's no additional overhead.

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