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From: kap1@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (Dietrich Kappe)
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Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe file format
Keywords: LZW
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Date: 13 Sep 90 18:30:00 GMT
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In article <5385@spt.entity.com> outer@sq.sq.com (Richard Outerbridge) 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.

Promises, promises.  Until I see the code, its 16-bit LZW.  But I guess there
is scant chance of you backing up your claim. :-)


--Dietrich--

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