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From: ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Kermit - big blocks
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Date: 9 Aug 89 17:00:00 GMT
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TMPLee@Dockmaster.NCSC.MIL commented that Kermit under ProDOS-8v.1.4 and
Basic.System 1.1 was writing 58 250-byte packets to disk between writes.

Just because you have the block size set for 250 doesn't mean what's coming in
are 250-byte blocks.  The sending computer has something to say about that.
The sender tells the receiver what size blocks are coming, and the receiver
adjusts accordingly.  You may have had e.g. 92-byte blocks.  That's still a
lot of blocks per write.  Was a cache operating?