Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!oz From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: compress and comic Message-ID: <13378@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 2 Aug 90 04:06:38 GMT References: <26407@nigel.udel.EDU> Sender: news@yunexus.YorkU.CA Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development Lines: 13 In article <26407@nigel.udel.EDU> drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (David R. Linn) writes: >Since it looks like compress will soon be unavailable to the common >man because it implements a patented algorithm This is simply not true. For a better understanding of the issue, see James Woods' article on gnu.misc.discuss. oz --- First learn your horn and all the theory. Internet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca Next develop a style. Then forget all that uucp: utzoo/utai!yunexus!oz and just play. Charlie Parker [?] York U. CCS: (416) 736 5257