Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!agate!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!fadden From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Idea for a packer! Summary: No... Message-ID: <18438@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 16 Oct 89 21:45:30 GMT References: <8910160557.aa26141@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Andy McFadden) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 In article <8910160557.aa26141@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> UD161733@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Joe Carlin) writes: >Actually, the idea for a NDA NuFX archiver wouldn't be that hard. The code >for the compression routines are already public domain, so it would just be a >matter of putting it into desk accessory format. The code for the compression routines is *not* public domain! The LZW used by ShrinkIt is very much different from ones used in other archivers or compressors, and has not (to my knowledge) been released into the public domain. It has taken me a few months to write a NuFX archiver... putting *anything* interactive into an NDA is no small task either. >Joe -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ...!ucbvax!cory!fadden