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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: What sense has MNP5?
Keywords: MNP5 ADB-Modem Teleport Compression
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Date: 5 Apr 91 14:56:42 GMT
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In article <4470@gmdzi.gmd.de> roh@gmdzi.gmd.de (Peter Rohleder) writes:
>"Turn MNP Level 5 off if you are sending/receiving non-text documents or
>applications which have been compressed using a file compression utility such 
...
>Since most files which you can download from Bulletin Boards or commercial
>networks are compressed it probably has no great sense to own an MNP5-Modem.

If the sole use of your modem is downloading macbinary stuffed files with
[XYZ]modem, that may be true.

If you do any interactive work where you're actually looking at the screen,
you'll appreciate the error correction that MNP (4 or better) buys you,
and possibly the compression.

Kermit uses 7-bit data, right?  MNP-5 would help on such transfers.

Finally, if you ever want to use Eudora over a modem, I strongly suggest
MNP capability (4 or better).
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner