Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!hamilton
From: hamilton@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: MNP in the PC
Message-ID: <10500013@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 89 22:15:00 GMT
References: <4328@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Lines: 18
Nf-ID: #R:emory.mathcs.emory.edu:4328:osiris.cso.uiuc.edu:10500013:000:745
Nf-From: osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!hamilton    Sep 13 17:15:00 1989


km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
> >Is it possible to implement MNP in software on a PC for
> >use with an internal modem that doesn't have MNP?
> >Is there any software package that does this?
> 
> There is a commercial package which does this (MNP to level 5).
> Called FLASHLINK, ...

hmmm.  i was under the impression that MNP5 relied on MNP3, and you couldn't
do MNP3 without going synchronous in the hardware.  is there something in the
MNP handshaking that allows MNP5 compression without MNP3?

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
UUCP:	{convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!osiris!hamilton
ARPA:	hamilton@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu	USMail:	Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801
CSNET:	hamilton%osiris@uiuc.csnet	Phone:	(217)384-4310