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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!myall.awadi.com.au!blymn From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Slcompress, slip header compression ? Date: 13 Jul 1993 00:16:45 GMT Organization: AWA Defence Industries Lines: 26 Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Jul12181646@mallee.awadi.com.au> References: <hastyC9IFM3.F9u@netcom.com> <741900278snz@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <hastyC9pxAJ.MDD@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mallee.awadi.com.au In-reply-to: hasty@netcom.com's message of Tue, 6 Jul 1993 00:56:42 GMT >>>>> On Tue, 6 Jul 1993 00:56:42 GMT, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) said: Amancio> In article <741900278snz@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk writes: >In article <hastyC9IFM3.F9u@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com writes: > >>If you are using NetBSD, the command to enable header compression is: >> >>slattach -c -s modem_speed /dev/com??? >> > >What about 386bsd pk0.2.4 ? slattach hasn't changed ! Amancio> Well I suggest taking a look at the slattach.c and slip code Amancio> in /sys/net in NetBSD. Or simply try to compile or get the Amancio> NetBSD slattach binary and try it out. Amancio> Next bug the patch kit team to be kind and do something Amancio> about the lack of compression header support in slattach. That's funny, I was *sure* that I sent those patches off to the patch coordinator. I hacked slattach to enable cts-rts flow control on the serial port and even updated the manual. Included in the patch I did were the fixes to enable header compression. -- Brett Lymn