Re: (PM) STAC with NT4.0 (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:27:56 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time James Sneeringer shaped the electrons to say...
>No, NT4's STAC is MS-STAC, and is proprietary to Microsoft. Supposedly
>this will change in NT5.

No - but close.

Win95 has 'MS-Stac'. That is Stac LZS Option 4 - and PM3s DO work with that.
The 'standard' is Stac LZS Option 3, but the RFC allows for Option 4 too, so
it isn't a big deal.

NT doesn't use either. It uses a per packet compression scheme developed by
M$, which, while using Stac as the algorithm, is not RFC compatible.

-MZ

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