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From: zjdg11@hou.amoco.com (Jim Graham)
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Subject: Re: V.42 questions on T2500 -- How?
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.123604.9315@hou.amoco.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 12:36:04 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.225901.10900@coplex.uucp> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes:

[lots deleted about V.42/V.42bis and LAP-M]

Most of your questions were already covered in another followup article, so I
won't hit on those...but.....

>3)  Is any of this stuff synonymous to MNP-5?

well, sort of....but not quite.  V.42/V.42bis are SIMILAR to MNP4/MNP5 in that
like MNP4, V.42 is an error control protocol, and like MNP5, V.42bis is a data
compression technique.  However, to say that V.42 == MNP4, or that 
V.42bis == MNP5 would not be true.  Personally, I'll take V.42/V.42bis over
MNP4/5 any day.....  [those who've seen some of my previous posts on the
subject already knew that, I'm sure....  :-) ]

hope that helps!
   --jim

Standard disclaimer....These thoughts are mine, not my employer's.

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