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Re: (ASCEND) Link-Comp-MS-Stac stops working (fwd)



> Once upon a time Phillip Vandry shaped the electrons to say...
> >> NT does NOT support STAC compression of any kind *unless* they are
> >> BETA testing NT5.0 ??
> >Really? I can't say for sure what they're running but I don't think it's
> >NT5.
> 
> Really - NT does MPPC, not Stac.  Win95 does MS-Stac instead of Stac.
> 
> The difference?  Stac = LZS Option 3, MS-Stac = LZS Option 4.
> 
> Sure they aren't running Win95?

Could be. The machine refuses FTP connections while NT usually accepts them.

> I've seen some info that is scary - there is supposed to be a ton of new
> proprietary PPP extensions in Win98 and NT5.

Dodn't the 0x80,0x81,0x82 and 0x83 DNS and WINS IPCP options start out as
proprietary, only to be published later as an RFC?

I remember reverse engineering this to implement it on our old UNIX
terminal servers -- I couldn't find docs.

-PHil
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