However, with a connection at 33K6 to my ISP the collection of a 1.5 meg
file takes almost 20 minutes. Previously while running a batch file
under DOS and using uqwk to pack the same amount of mail/news the whole
operation of packing _and_ transferring to my PC took less than 10
minutes.
Considering that we in Norway pay the telco for all calls and (in my
case) the ISP for logon time it does mean quite a hefty hop in my bills.
Has anyone timed the packing/transfer rate and would like to share their
experiences? Anyone (Chris?) knows whether this operation can be speeded
up?
BTW, am running Yarn95 under NT 4 and all the problems I had with Yarn
crashing when attempting to open large folders or newsgroups are gone. I
do not have any concrete proof but am convinced that the memory
management under NT is much better than DOS. Or the algorithm in Yarn95
is better than PC Yarn? Regardless, I am a happy camper with Yarn95
under NT. Do have some "quirks" with Qedit (16-bits) running under NT
but then I have workarounds which makes it bearable as I cannot stand
the ANSI charset mangling the ISO-8859-1 chars when the packet is
uploaded.
Regards and TIA.
James