Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:33:20 +0100 (MET) From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: plm@xs4all.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LZS (STAC) compression in i4b? Message-ID: <m10QS3M-0000c6C@hcswork.hcs.de> In-Reply-To: <87u2vaplza.fsf@muon.xs4all.nl> from Peter Mutsaers at "Mar 24, 99 11:21:45 pm"
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From the keyboard of Peter Mutsaers: > Does current i4b support LZS/STAC compression? No. > Or is compression not necessary in the kernel driver, but in the > userspace programs (ppp, pppd). When I grep through ppp sources I do > see STAC mentioned somewhere. i4b has nothing in common with userland PPP. It seems STAC makes a version of its compression routines available for noncommercial use, (see www.hifn.com) as i live in Europe, i was not even able to get databooks for the chips they make ..... :-( Because of patent laws, not even rewriting STAC from scratch will help, since it it illegal. I doubt, there will ever be STAC compression available in any free PPP implementation. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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