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Article #6570Re: PPP Reg Flies!!
From: Troels Walsted Hansen
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:04
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:04
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In article <Dpxvwn.AEE@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>, bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au
(Bernd Felsche) wrote:
>>I find it strange that people appreciate crippled shareware more than
>>uncrippled shareware...but maybe that's just me...
>I wouldn't call it crippled when it's unregistered. Still entirely
>useable. With a 28.8 modem, you get close to 80% throughput ... well
>over 2000 bytes/second.
>Unless I'm much mistaken, the registration provides you with
>_additional_ features; like header compression which gives a bit
>performance boost on small packets.
Holger has written the code for header compression. The unregistered version
doesn't use it. Holger has written code for PAP. The unregistered version
doesn't use it/in later versions it works for a few minutes.
It is crippled.
T r o e l s W a l s t e d H a n s e n
troels@stud.cs.uit.no - http://www.cs.uit.no/~troels
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.uit.no!news From: troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking Subject: Re: PPP Reg Flies!! Date: 18 Apr 96 00:04:14 +0100 Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway Message-ID: <908.6682T4T700@stud.cs.uit.no> References: <4ki6of$5aq@news.aloha.com> <666.6675T804T1889@woodtech.com> <605.6676T1434T1184@stud.cs.uit.no> <Dpxvwn.AEE@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: uit-or5.uit.no X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)