On (27 Apr 94) Paul Edwards wrote to Keith Richardson...



 PE>> You had a double-send tonight, in the middle of the transfer. What

 PE>> modem are you using, and doesn't it support V42? BFN.



 KR> a maestro se. yes it does, but i have forced mnp as that seemed to

 KR> be conventional wisdom to stop double send. i notice that sometimes

 KR> the modems seem to have some trouble locking to each other, the

 KR> training sequence seems to repeat several times. on other

 KR> occasions, though, it goes straight through.



 PE> Not any more with people who have Spirits but still have a positive

 PE> IQ. You'll be pleased to know that I fall into that category, have

 PE> modified the Binkley source to put in a 2/10 second delay, and

 PE> double-send on V42 is ancient history. As for the bad connects, you

 PE> might want to try forcing V32. BFN.



ok i'll do that. btw i got at least one bad download in recent times.

two days ago pkzip 2.04g barfed on it. after running pkzipfix, it

unpacked, but some of the packets were pure crap. the last two days,

though, have been ok.



                 Keith



... If speed scares you, try seamless WIN-OS/2.



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