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- From: eric@accessorl.net (Eric Shaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: To V42Bis or not to V42Bis??
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 23:47:45 -0500
- Organization: Access Orlando
- Message-ID: <eric-0502962347460001@sobt.accessorl.net>
- References: <4ej6rh$oa2@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> <4eruq2$e2@hg.oro.net> <4etjse$a0g@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> <4f0jnq$dr7@hg.oro.net> <DM9p11.Gn6@freenet.carleton.ca>
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- In article <DM9p11.Gn6@freenet.carleton.ca>, an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
- (Anthony Hill) wrote:
- > If you transfer pre-compressed files (eg .ZIP files), you can not
- >compress them any more using v.42bis (or MNP5 for that matter). MNP5
-
- Well, not much anyways, but you can a little bit. Since v.42 bis is smart
- enough to figure out which packets it can and can't compress, it comes out
- a little bit ahead even on ZIPs (unless the modems compression engine is
- slow), because the packets in the ZIP header containing file paths (which
- ZIP leaves uncompressed) get compressed.
-