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From: jbrown@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: 'g' packet size
Message-ID: <212@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 23 Sep 88 04:20:53 GMT
Reply-To: jbrown@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jordan Brown)
Organization: Me?  Organized?
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How practical is it to increase the packet size on a 'g' transfer?
About 10% of a g transfer is header overhead (6 bytes header, 64 bytes
data); it should be quite practical in terms of reliability to go to
much larger packets (maybe as large as 1k, which works fine for ymodem)
and reduce the overhead dramatically.

My UUPC source indicates that it should be easy to go to at least 128,
but the real question is whether any other site in the universe will do
it.  I haven't decyphered it enough to figure out if this is a
negotiated parameter... if it isn't I guess I'm sunk.  Do all known
uucps run exclusively at 64 bytes/packet?

(Yeah, I know it's only 10%, and probably only 5%.  But if it's easy,
why not do it?)

Does anybody reading this understand the guts of 'g'?

Doesn't seem like this should go on comp.mail.*, but there aren't any
other groups that look good.  (Besides, does anybody do anything else
with uucp other than news and mail? :-)