Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit FAX mode?
Summary: ASCII is smaller!
Keywords: FAX, faxcico, uucp, UNIX
Message-ID: <1927@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 00:12:51 GMT
References: <597@pcrat.UUCP> <986@viscous> <600@pcrat.UUCP> <1924@van-bc.UUCP> <1739@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC.
Lines: 19

In article <1739@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes:
> In article <1924@van-bc.UUCP>, sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) writes:
 
} > With any luck they might even put the ASCII -> G3 conversion right into the
} > modem! (Maybe even G3 -> ASCII :-) ). 
 
} 	No, you probably would not want this as it would increase the
} 	data rate requirement of the serial port by at least a factor
} 	of 2.  Since G3 max rate is 9600 baud (1200 bytes per second)
} 	you're pushing small machine serial ports at 19.2K or 38.4K if
} 	you decompressed in the modem.  Keep the image compressed until 
} 	it makes it onto the PC.

What I meant was to do OCR conversion of the data from G3 to ASCII in the
modem. Doesn't anyone remember what :-)'s mean anymore.


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Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532