On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:40:41AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hans,
> 
> LBX and SSH are doing roughly the same thing.  Both
> will compress the data stream.  SSH offers the added benefit
> of encrypting the data too.

openSSH will only compress the data stream if called with the -C
switch.

> I talked with Keith Packard, he's the guy who originally
> wrote the LBX extensions for X, and he informed me that LBX
> was going away.  When I asked him what we should be doing
> for low-bandwidth connections, he said SSH was the best way
> to go.

Good to know.

-- 

Hans Ekbrand

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