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- From: guru@thias.muc.de (Matthias Apitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Please Explain Octets
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 07:23:35 -0200
- Organization: Matthias Apitz
- Message-ID: <4iluen$nu4@thias.muc.de>
- References: <4ii0aa$n8f@news-e2b.gnn.com> <4ij6fn$c1k@nntp1.best.com>
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- Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) writes:
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- >In article <4ii0aa$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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- octets is just a term for 8 bits. I doesn't matter if these
- bits are representing compressed data or not.
-
- matthias
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