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- From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL {LONG SUMMARY} ***
- Message-ID: <g7X8VB14w165w@zswamp.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:55:03 EST
- References: <Bzoxrw.GM5@demon.co.uk>
- Organization: Izot's Swamp
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- gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
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- > Your summary missed a less obvious one but one that clearly wins as 'best'
- > on all criteria except perhaps raw download speed and availability:
- > tcp/ip - over either slip or ppp - can't be beaten by kermit, zmodem, or
- > the rest. You can just do *so* much more with it...
-
- Yup, just about everything, except the one thing that the user probably
- wants to do: download from a BBS.
-
- I'm willing to bet that IP also has a higher ease*cost constant for DOS
- users (of which, unfortunately, I am still one). For instance, does anyone
- know if there's some way to get IP to live under my DesqView and be accessible
- from tasks running under DV? Sure, I could buy DV/X, which is (1) more
- expensive than DV/386; (2) more memory hungry, which I can afford even less;
- (3) TCP/IP-oriented (e.g. has anyone used DV/X with SLIP or PPP?)
-
- Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
- geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
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