Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Telebits and uucp g-protocol Message-ID: <73703@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 13 Jun 89 18:44:59 GMT References: <335@nixtor.UUCP> <4980002@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 14 In article <4980002@hpfcdc.HP.COM> rjn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes: >>The biggest problem with 'f' is that it assumes the line is not 8-bit trans- >>parent, and does quoting of all control and 8-bit characters. This increases >>the size of text files by about 5%, and compressed files by over 40%. > >Yes, but if the modem has on-board data-compression, it compresses the >quoting back out before transmission. I would *guess* that an even bigger win -- albeit more work -- is the encode filter used by netnews. This also reduces the number of interrupts the CPU has to service, which was supposed to be one of the gains using 'f' protocol. Then go through your MNP Level 5 modem.