>-> -=> Quoting MIKE FARRILL to RICK COLLINS <=-
 >-> Nope.  It increases the throughput by using fewer bits (8 rather than
 >-> 10) to represent a character.  The bits are sent at exactly the same
 >-> speed with or without EC.
 >If people want more speed, Why don't they just reduce the bits to 7 or
 >6?
Mike,
       7 bits would only cover the standard ASCII character set..
       ie... 00-7F (hex) or 000-127 (dec)...  This would be fine
       if all one ever did was view or download text data...
       You can forget binary files such as *.EXE, *.ZIP, etc..
       They contain quite a bit of data from 80-FF (hex) or 128-255 (dec).
       Of course you can also forget about all those graphical comm
       programs used by AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, and even those nasty
       web browsers used with a PPP connection such as Internet Explorer
       or Netscape... 8-)
Dave P.
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