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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Please Explain Octets
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 08:22:15 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
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- In article <4ii0aa$n8f@news-e2b.gnn.com>, PTHarn@gnn.com says...
- >
- >Could someone explain the term octets? When I check the details of a
- >communications session the data refers to blocks and octets. I would like to
- >know more fully what the term octets mean. I am pretty sure it has something
- >to do with the number eight but I am not really sure. Thanks in advance.
- >
- octects.. compressed data units, if the number of octects is greater then the
- number of chracters sent, the modems probably used mnp5 compression on an
- already compressed file, and the result was expanded data
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