Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!crackers!crackers.clearpoint.com!solensky From: solensky@animal.clearpoint.com (Frank T. Solensky) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Message compression Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 18:05:41 GMT References: <9104031437.AA14650@saturn.acc.com> <1991Apr4.180239.12442@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@crackers.clearpoint.com Organization: /home/solensky/.organization Lines: 13 In-reply-to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 4 Apr 91 18:02:39 GMT In article <1991Apr4.180239.12442@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: Telebit would be very surprised to hear this; all their modems do Lempel-Ziv compression on the fly. No, LZ does *not* need to look at the entire data stream before being able to compress any part of it. Faux pas, mea culpa, *sigh*! Looking at the man page again, I see that the "compress" command does indeed use an _adaptive_ LZ coding.. The main point I wanted to make was that the IETF is, at least, aware of the desire for compression within FTP. -- -- Frank Solensky / Clearpoint Research Corp. Red Sox magic number: 163