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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!utah-morgan!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: Problems with patchkit 0.2.4 Message-ID: <1993Aug9.214631.18873@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT References: <BLYMN.93Jul28182459@siren.awadi.com.au> <1993Jul29.032615.9906@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <23pa4i$47b@cleese.apana.org.au> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 93 21:46:31 GMT Lines: 27 In article <23pa4i$47b@cleese.apana.org.au> newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) writes: >In article <1993Jul29.032615.9906@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: [ ... discussion of MNP ... ] >>Ask yourself "What standard do they use in v.32-BIS and v.42-BIS modems to >>do their compressing?". This statement actually becomes kinda funny. > >Bzzzt! > >v.42 uses LAP-M for error correction; v.42bis uses BTLZ in conjunction >with LAP-M for compression. > >Neither of them make use of MNPx. > >MNP protocols are proprietry, so they're hardly the correct choice as >a CCITT v.* standard, eh? Re-Bzzzt! The MNP protocol has been reimplemented by multiple vendors. It is the specific implementation which is propritary. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.