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Date:      Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:21:45 +0100 (MET)
From:      hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
To:        brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Cc:        plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: LZS (STAC) compression in i4b?
Message-ID:  <m10QvqD-0000dmC@hcswork.hcs.de>
In-Reply-To: <199903261224.MAA03442@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Mar 26, 99 12:24:19 pm"

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> > I doubt, there will ever be STAC compression available in any free PPP
> > implementation.
> 
> Agreed.  I've talked to both Microsoft and Stac Electronics about 
> this.  The only mention in user-ppp is where it identifies frames and 
> parses LCP requests.

Strange enough - i ftp'ed me the linux ISDN stuff, and there seem to be
a STAC compression implementation based on the RFC in it. I'm really,
_really_ interested in STAC's reaction to that, even more because the
author seems to be fully aware of the patent situation.

hellmuth
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