From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 18 06:49:31 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA23099 for current-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 06:49:31 -0700 Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA23085 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 06:49:27 -0700 Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.7.Beta.11/8.7.Beta.11/DIALix) id VAA12354 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:49:22 +0800 (WST) Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-current@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: 18 Aug 1995 21:49:18 +0800 From: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) Message-ID: <4125ou$c1v$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. References: <411c76$b81$1@haywire.DIALix.COM>, <199508181101.NAA13812@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: pppd Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >As Peter Wemm wrote: >> >> >> The biggest difference I can see is that 2.2 supports some sort of >> >> compression called "BSD-compress", whatever the heck that is.. >> >> >Ain't this the ``predictor 1'' compression? Would be nice to have it. >> >> No. It's a compress(1) modified to run as a data stream. Considering >Aha. Would iijppp also understand it? :) They would recognise each other, but would agree to disagree on the method.. :-( As I understand it, the "bsd-compress" gives a much greater compression, but at a significant memory cost... It'd be nice to have both available in each system. -Peter >-- >cheers, J"org >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)