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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: 9600 baud modems
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Date: 18 Jun 91 23:21:02 GMT
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In-Reply-To: nerd@percival.rain.com's message of 18 Jun 91 21:31:32 GMT

In article <1991Jun18.213132.20862@percy.rain.com> nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi) writes:
   For slip the PEP stuff is useless.  

If you have implemented RFC1144 VJ TCP header compression, PEP modems
are quite useful for SLIP and PPP.  PEP will hold the line when
nothing else will, FTP throughput is reasonable, and interactive
response is survivable.