KV9U wrote: > I am not clear on this. The B2F compression is used with Winlink 2000. I > am not sure what it really is other than a compression scheme to nearly > double plain text throughput and is some kind of adaptation to the > protocols that were adopted by FBB such as B1F.
"B2F compression" is a misnomer. B2F is the message structure and message exchange proposal protocol used for email messages in Winlink 2000. The WL2K messages are compressed, but they use *exactly* the same Lempel-Ziv Huffman compression as the F6FBB B1F protocol. What differs from F6FBB is the FC message proposal, and the email format messages exchanged. http://www.winlink.org/B2F.htm Working source code is available. It doesn't talk to any TNCs yet, but all the B2F stuff has been working for some time. It can exchange messages with the WL2K servers over the Internet using a "telnet" connection. By the way, if anyone wants to help work on this project, let me know. My available free time to work on this is becoming increasingly negative. http://sourceforge.net/projects/paclink-unix -- 73 de Nick N2QZ Section Traffic Manager, Eastern New York Section Net Manager, NYS/E FISTS #11469 SKCC #1027 Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Our other groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
