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- Zmax is fairly easy to use, just follow the parameter guide in
- the Zmax.doc file.
-
- Zmax is designed to replace Zmodem. It's faster and handles noisy
- lines much better. Zmax isn't the fastest protocol around, Tmodem
- is considerably faster but Zmax handles noisy lines better than
- Tmodem.
-
- To use Zmax to its fullest, you'll need to setup several
- different definitions for it in your terminal program for
- receiving or downloading files.
-
- (NON-MNP Connects)
-
- I would suggest that you setup one that gives you 1024 byte
- Blocks in stream mode. This is for the systems you call and
- you always get good lines and rarely, if every, have any bad
- blocks.
-
- I would then setup one that used 512 byte blocks in stream mode.
- This is for those system that you call but you do on occation get
- resend requests. This will save you about 2.2 seconds if you get
- ONE resend request and about 5 seconds if you get 2 of them. 5
- seconds can make a BIG difference in your thoughput.
-
- Finally, setup one that uses 128 byte blocks in NON-STREAM mode.
- This is for systems you call that always have bad lines. Your
- thoughput will be much better.
-
- If your calling a system that supports MNP and so do you, then I
- would go so far as to setup one that always requested 2048 byte
- blocks in STREAM mode. The likely hood that you'll get any errors
- is so small its not really worth worrying about.