Re: ppp compression schemes

Joel Klecker (jk@espy.org)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:27:59 -0800

At 05:03 -0800 1998-11-04, Riley Williams wrote:
>On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Is there any way to either make Ascend include ppp-deflate or
> > bsd-compress support or to make Linux include stac compression?
>I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that stac compression is a
>proprietary protocol (hence the Stac v M$ case a while back), and this
>is the reason why it's not in Linux...

Not entirely:
<http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1974.txt>. At the
very least I would guess an implementation of Stac LZS compression could be
implemented as a kernel module.

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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)
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