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- From: doswald@xmission.com (David Oswald)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Internet Access with a 386
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 17:41:43 GMT
- Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
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- hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de (Hans-Joachim Zierke) made the following
- comments:
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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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-
- *Maybe* someone would be so kind as to publish the source for v42bis
- compression so that we could compile it on a machine that can be used
- to test compression ratios. Is that impossible (I really don't know)?
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