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Date:      18 Aug 1995 21:49:18 +0800
From:      peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm)
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pppd
Message-ID:  <4125ou$c1v$1@haywire.DIALix.COM>
References:  <411c76$b81$1@haywire.DIALix.COM>, <199508181101.NAA13812@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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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. ;-)



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