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- From: mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matthew Xavier Mora)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Autodoubler
- Message-ID: <mxmora-111292163056@css-mac1.sri.com>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 00:35:23 GMT
- References: <1992Dec3.154144.24941@hobbes.kzoo.edu> <BytouD.Dzz@iat.holonet.net> <1992Dec6.222713.24881@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec6.222713.24881@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
- jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore) wrote:
- >
- > In article <BytouD.Dzz@iat.holonet.net> bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
- > >Fact: I know someone who is an expert in compression technologies (if not
- > >*THE* expert for LZ based algorithms.
-
- > Fact? how do _we_ know this is a fact? You better have proof if you wanna
- > call someone an "expert", let alone "*THE* expert". I consider Bill Goodman
- > an expert, because he wrote a fairly useful and well-designed compression
- > utility. I consider Raymond Lau an expert, because he wrote a compression
- > utility that has basically become an industry standard.
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- I wouldn't consider Ray Lau an expert in compression since he used what was
- available at the the time. Now, Ross Williams I would consider an expert
- and some of the other folx on comp.compression. Maybe that's who Bill is
- talking about.
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-
- I do agree with the rest of your post though.
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- Xavier
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