Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!sq!outer
From: outer@sq.sq.com (Richard Outerbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe file format
Summary: Guess again.
Keywords: LZW
Message-ID: <1990Sep9.134716.13837@sq.sq.com>
Date: 9 Sep 90 13:47:16 GMT
References: <5385@spt.entity.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
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In article <5385@spt.entity.com> gz@spt.entity.com (Gail Zacharias) writes:
>Stuffit 1.5 uses 14-bit LZW compression. [....]  I'll
>bet that Stuffit Deluxe just uses 16-bit LZW compression.  So much for
>great leaps forward in compression technology.

You'd lose your money: so much for ignorant flaming.  Ray tried
several types of compression as candidates for Deluxe's "Better"
algorithm, but what he settled on is not 16-bit LZW.