Subject: Re: PPP Stac LZS decompressor for NetBSD 1.6
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/06/2003 18:34:58
In article <Pine.NEB.4.44.0304061318460.6413-100000@tautology.immanent.net>,
Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Iain Hibbert wrote:
>
>>    I wrote a decompressor for PPP using the Stac LZS algorithm, its at
>> <http://homepages.rya-online.net/plunky/lzs.html> and has been working
>> well for me for some time without any problems..
>
>That's pretty cool. Even with one history buffer, you should be able
>to get +14% for large plain text/html/uuencoded downloads, an obvious
>trick that none of the presently available compression systems seems
>to have hit upon. Unfortunatly, I have to turn off CCP to connect to
>the only dial-up server I currently use, so I don't think it would
>help me, but I'd still hate to see this buried in the mailing list.
>Would you mind filing a problem report, so at least it stays visible
>until someone picks it up?

He should send-pr it.

christos