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- From: jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: v34 speed on txt files???
- Message-ID: <1996Mar23.155310.22332@n5ial.mythical.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:53:10 GMT
- References: <4hqq0e$eqn@sam.inforamp.net> <4il84j$8g3@news3.digex.net> <4in44i$7e7@hg.oro.net> <DoMuv9.1H3@giskard.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <DoMuv9.1H3@giskard.demon.co.uk> dale@giskard.demon.co.uk
- (Dale Shuttleworth) writes:
-
- >Err, MNP and LAPM are simply who different compression standards.
-
- and later....
-
- >"LAPM modems" (i.e. modems which support V42bis - most of them) support
- >the LAPM compression protocol.
-
- LAPM, Link Access Procedure for Modems, is the primary mode of operation
- for Recommendation V.42. In other words, it is *ERROR CONTROL*. V.42
- does *NOT* do data compression. V.42bis does, but that's an entirely
- different ITU-T recommendation.
-
- Now, V.42bis is normally run on top of V.42 (LAPM, not the alternate mode
- which is basically MNP3/4), but that does not make LAPM data compression.
- Also, V.42bis does *REQUIRE* an error-controlled data link, but still,
- that's a completely different issue, and does not mean that the error
- control procedure suddenly has data compression built into it---data
- compression is simply operating in a higher layer.
-
- As for ``MNP'' being data compression.... MNP what? MNP levels 2, 3, and
- 4 are certainly not data compression. MNP5 is (well, if you want to call
- it ``compression''!). I don't know about the higher levels---I've never
- really bothered to find out. :-)
-
- Later,
- --jim
-
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