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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