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From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP strangeness
Summary: CSLIP source?
Message-ID: <434@minya.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 90 01:08:14 GMT
References: <101@kongo.edsdrd.eds.com>
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> Oh, by the way, I'm not sure if it matters or not, but I'm running
> the SLIP compression routines (CSLIP), and ...

Hmmm... The folks around where I'm working have been discussing adding
a compression feature to SLIP, and a bit of investigation turned up no
evidence that anyone had done it.  This passage makes it sound like it
has been done.  Does anyone know details?  Is the source available for
copying or purchasing (under or over the table ;-)?

I've been thinking of subroutinizing the heart of compress as a way of
getting the job done, though with the latest fuss over the legality of
using compress, this may not be an option.  Of course, I could always
hack up a compress routine of my own; even a dumb one would have to 
give a measurable improvement over all the null and repeated bytes in
the typical IP header.  But getting it already done would be so much
faster, y'know.

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