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From: rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Using High Speed Modems
Message-ID: <6536@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 22:21:30 GMT
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In article <28675@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> wardc@banana () writes:
>I received a little information regarding high speed transfers.
>
	[...]
>
>Regarding the transfer rates for compression.  One observation made was
>whether the modem was being sent data fast enough to bother with
>compression.  The source/dest's are 286 using the 38400 bps transfer
	[...]

	I have a related question...

	Do modems with V.42 compression cause compressed files (e.g.
	PKZIP, LHARC, etc...) to become effectively larger when
	transferred?  In other words, is there negative compression
	when transferring a compressed file via V.42?

	Thanks.
---
Robert