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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
- Subject: Re: Widespread bug in "compress" and GIF compressors
- Keywords: LZW, compress, GIF
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.131051.12514@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 13:10:51 GMT
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- In article <BzEzAM.3Gv.2@cs.cmu.edu>, tgl+@cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
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- | Here is the correction as it applies to compress 4.1 (posted to
- | comp.sources.misc volume 20, June 1991).
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- Just a thought, this code seems to have vanished in 4.2, as posted
- sometime in 1992. 4.2 is also almost 2x faster and compresses better, so
- there may be other reasons to update, rather than using 4.1 at any patch
- level.
-
- I'm going to look in ppmtogif for similar code, any gain would be
- useful!
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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