#: 7503 S7/Telecommunications
    18-Oct-90  00:21:21
Sb: #reply to 7384
Fm: Robert A. Larson 75126,723
To: all

Authors who are willing to distribute executable code without source are likely
to be people who would run executable code from other such authors.  If you do
not see the problem with this, you don't understand how viruses work. 
Commercial messydos and mac programs have been distributed with viruses.

It does appear that compuserve has made some needed improvements to their
kermit.  The previous bug of insisting on 8-bit quoting when it is avaialable
is gone, and long packets are now supported.  I did make a mistake which wound
up not requesting long packets (which compuserve kermit now supports).  I have
not tested whether compuserve kermit supports windowing yet, c-kermit 5a (the
first unix kermit that supports them) was still in alpha test not ready for
porting to osk last time I checked.

Obviously I meant 561 bits/second, not characters/second.  The short tests I
have made with long packets enabled show reasonable throuput of about 1500 bps.
(Still half what I get under execelent conditions at v.22bis (2400 baud) mnp5
(compression).  I'll try v.32 (9600 baud) v.42bis (better compression) when I
receive the new modem I have ordered.)

Speed is as reported by the status command of c-kermit.

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