LZ: Compression and patents
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LZ: Compression and patents
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Subject: LZ: Compression and patents
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From: SAM STAUFFER <sam.stauffer@aquila.com>
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 07:10:00 -0600
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In-Reply-To: <>
-> I believe that LZW is no longer patented. I think Microsoft actually
-> uses it in the real-time compression interface in DOS 6 and later.
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-> Arithmetic, however, I *know* is still patented--which is why the
-> MRCI doesn't use it, even though it is a better algorithm.
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-> BTW--no algorithm works very well for code. I'd say 20 percent
-> compression would be very good. This means that this whole project
-> might not have much in the way of usable results! However, you might
-> prove me wrong--I'd love to see it. Plus, it would be a great
-> learning experience!
If you used the BW Tranformation you could, It sorts the data and keeps
a record of how it sorted them. Code has a lot of repetition it's just
not consecutive.