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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Kermit and MNP5 (was Re: What sense has MNP5?)
Keywords: MNP5 ADB-Modem Teleport Compression
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>>Kermit uses 7-bit data, right?  MNP-5 would help on such transfers.
>Kermit wouldn't do any better.  Sure it encodes the data into printable
>characters, but that doesn't make the data redundant.

Yes, it does increase redundancy, by wasting 1/8 of the bandwidth of the
connection with 0 bits.  MNP5 could (in theory) squeeze that 1/8 back out.

>Using Kermit won't help you get
>better throughput over MNP5 links.

No, but using MNP 5 can take some of the penalty out of using Kermit,
which is what I said.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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