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- From: alech@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Alec Henderson)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:02:28 GMT
- Subject: Re: compressed-header SLIP in ppl?
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- >does anyone know if HP-UX supports compressed-header
- >SLIP? i can only get the normal slip to work, and
- >i don't know what the meaning of ASLIPC and ASLIPS are in the
- >HP serial-line interface manual. SLIP by itself
- >works ok, but integration into the rest of HP-UX is
- >awful, and the 40:1 overhead of normal (not compressed
- >header) SLIP makes interactive sessions a pain.
- >-tobi delbruck (tdelbruck@caltech.edu)
- >Caltech, Pasadena
-
- HP-UX, up to and including release 9.0, does not include an
- implemenation of compressed-header SLIP (CSLIP).
-
- ppl, available on HP-UX beginning with release 8.0, supports
- both SLIP and abbreviated SLIP (ASLIP). ASLIPC and ASLIPS are
- the client and server portions of ASLIP.
-
- Regards,
- Alec Henderson
-
- Telephone: T/408-447-3965 Hewlett-Packard
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