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