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- Path: quijote.in-berlin.de!hajo
- Date: 05 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
- From: hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de (Hans-Joachim Zierke)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Message-ID: <60G0V6oKYgB@quijote.in-berlin.de>
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- Subject: Re: Internet Access with a 386
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- Butt-head writes:
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- > This seems to be a really common myth. 115200 or even 230400 is very
- > useful for .MID files and the beginning of .MOD files (until you get to
- > the instrument samples) For most executable programs and binary files,
- > compression ratios from v.42bis much better than about 2.5:1 aren't that
- > common, but for text files, its supposed to get 4:1 (and usually does get
- > around 3:1).
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- Thank you for reproducing advertisement junk of low-quality modem makers.
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- Please show us some text files that compress 3:1 or 4:1 with V42b.
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- 3:1 might happen with highly redundant data: sourcecode, index files, press
- bulettins of Compuserve or Bavarian ministers. For normal text, 3:1 is pure
- advertisers phantasy.
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- hajo
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- Phone calls in Germany won't get more expensive in 1996. They are only
- getting shorter. Your friendly TELEKOM.
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