Re: LZ: Compression program (and quest

Subject: Re: LZ: Compression program (and quest
From: barrym <barrym@neosoft.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:52:18 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <8C82379.0001008786.uuout@aquila.com>

On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, SAM STAUFFER wrote:

> -> >This method is known as the Lempel-Ziv algorithm.
> ->
> -> That is interesting, thanks.  But how efficient is that with data
> -> files that are more random?
> 
> It's patended.

Good point.  And Unisys takes their patent very seriously.
However they do only have a token charge for people who use
it in public domain software, or they did when they first
began doing that.  They had a lot of info about this on their
homepage, which, I think, is www.unisys.com.

Barry

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