[4132] in Athena Bugs
bug in kermit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kewms@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 5 00:19:29 1990
From: kewms@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: kendra!ahd@GARP.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 90 00:19:10 EST
I was recently using C-Kermit to download a file to a friend's PC and
ran into a bug, which I'll let him describe:
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When the production version of C-kermit is used to download a file to
release 3.00 of MS-Kermit with a packet size of 2000 bytes, the
default timeout (I think 8 seconds) at 2400 baud is long enough that
C-Kermit times out and resends each packet of data at least twice.
There are two work arounds for this:
1) Reduce the packet size (we did so down to 500 bytes)
2) Increase the C-Kermit timeout value to around 30 seconds.
This may be corrected in the latest version of C-Kermit, which is
available from watsun.cc.columbia.edu via anonymous ftp.
Drew Derbyshire
@garp.mit.edu:ahd@kendra.kew.com
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Any response should probably go to him, since he knows much more about
these things than I do.
Thanks,
Katherine Williams
kewms@athena.mit.edu
