On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:59:56 -200, Heimo wrote:
> Mail/News/FTP is clearly a sequential affair, thus your
> second condition is not necessarily determinant:
>> All the functions above are multitasked, allows you to
Not really. Both FTP and news are inherently too slow to be
done sequentially. Virtually all FTP and news servers allows
you to open multiple connections with the *same* account at
the *same* time. In this case, doing things concurrently
always accomplish the overall tasks a lot faster than the
fully sequetial methods (i.e. Nettamer FTP batch run).
For example, when uploading new materials to SurvPC site (*),
I usually opened three or more WS-FTP windows at once, each
goes to different directories. That way, I don't have to
wait for directory changes anymore, all accessible at once.
Sometimes I even have two or more redundant FTP sessions, all
pointed to the same directory. This alows me to upload more
things at the same time without waiting for the previous
upload's completion, which reduce the needed online time
greatly. No more online time wasted waiting for slow server
responses.
The same principle also applicable to news and mail servers.
Especially when the one you use is not local from your ISP.
Altough for mail, perhaps only limited to certain mail servers
(i.e. Qmail), which allows multiple open sessions for the same
account (currently a RFC violation ;-). Traditionally,
multitasked email client will allow you to send/receive mails
while doing anything else with different protocols (i.e. web,
ICQ, IRC, and/or FTP).
All of the above is *not* impossible under DOS, as long as
all functions are integrated in one thightly-coded cooperative
multitasked software (you'll need PKTMUX otherwise).
--Eko
http://survpc.virtualave.net/
(*) Sometimes under Win 3.x, running on 16-Mhz AT/286.
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