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- Submitted-by: brnstnd@KRAMDEN.ACF.NYU.EDU (Dan Bernstein)
-
- In article <1991Jun12.034606.16284@uunet.uu.net> pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson) writes:
- > The group is also looking for a new family of compression utilities,
- > now that the Lempel-Ziv-Welch family of commands have been removed
- > from the standard. The main requirements for a substitute are:
- > o The algorithm should be expressed (expressible) in a
- > language independent form
- > o The algorithm should be free of patent issues
-
- My compression method, Y coding, appears to be free of all patents,
- including LZW. There's nothing language-dependent about the method or
- current file format. My reference implementation, yabbawhap (see
- comp.sources.unix volume 24), works on a variety of UNIX and non-UNIX
- systems, and produces better results than compress at reasonable speed.
-
- Another possibility is Ross Williams' LZRW1, which produces worse
- results than compress but is blindingly fast.
-
- ---Dan
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- Volume-Number: Volume 24, Number 9
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