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Article #2025DNET 7 bit support
From: Matt Dillon
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1989 03:05
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1989 03:05
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I'm going away for a week but have almost completed
modifications to DNet for use over a 7 bit line or with other
protocols. This will become the default (with a switch for 8
bit mode). That way you guarentee that DNet will run on any
connection or configuration by default.
The modifications are as follows:
SYNC character changed to 0x5B (from 0xFF)
All packet header and control information redesigned such that
all bytes fall within the range 0x20-0x7F
Several new packet types added (invisible to user)
Currently there is a PCMD_WRITE packet ... a data packet
containing N bytes of 8 bit data. I'm adding another packet type
which will encode binary data into 6 bit bundles (or'd with 0x40
to make them ascii) for 7 bit mode... resulting in an increase
of 25% in the packet size. DNet will use whichever packet makes
sense depending on the mode selected and the contents of the
packet.
If anybody wishes to submit a simple block compression
algorithm that works well with small blocks of data (history
storage is alloweds), please email me... I have room for a
couple new packets and am seriously thinking about adding
compression to the 8 bit mode.
The compression would not effect the already slow keyboard
response as it would be run only on packets larger than, say,
32 bytes.
P.S. THIS MUST BE A FAST COMPRESSION ALGORITHM. It also
must use a statically sized history.
-Matt
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