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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
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Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Jul12181646@mallee.awadi.com.au>
References: <hastyC9IFM3.F9u@netcom.com> <741900278snz@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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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.

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Brett Lymn