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From: jparnas@larouch.uucp (Jacob Parnas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Microcom QX/V.32c evaluation
Message-ID: <1989Aug6.002842.8245@larouch.uucp>
Date: 6 Aug 89 00:28:42 GMT
References: <361@larouch.UUCP> <7525@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jparnas@larouch.UUCP (Jacob Parnas)
Organization: Larouch Headquarters, Hopewell Junction, NY
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In article <7525@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>
>Could you run the compress utility using this host file for input and
>report what the compression factor there was?
>

uncompressed /etc/hosts is 110025 characters long
compressed /etc/hosts is 41724 characters long

Also, I turned on flow control and got the following troughputs on the
Microcom QX/V.32c (with ftp over SLIP with modems hooked up at 38400 baud
between 2 RT PC running 4.3 BSD with Dickens Data Systems 8 Port boards
with 1 KByte buffer per port):

compressed file: .89 Kbytes/second
uncompressed binary: 2 Kbytes/second
uncompressed /etc/hosts: 2.6 Kbytes/second

Also, I did

(cd /usr; tar cf - man ) | rsh valimar "(cd /usr; tar xpf -)"

sending 6200 Kbytes of manual pages in about 45 minutes = 2351 bytes/second.

I'm very impressed.  

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