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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: ARJ and patents
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.070156.5651@looking.on.ca>
Date: 25 Apr 91 07:01:56 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.004117.20744@world.std.com>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <1991Apr25.004117.20744@world.std.com> robjung@world.std.com (Robert K Jung) writes:
>good decompressor.  Unlike UNIX COMPRESS which uses a patented compressor
>and a patented decompressor, the UNARJ decompressor is not patentable as

Patented compressor, perhaps.  The decompression algorithm is so simple that
I think it wasn't even described in the paper.  Is it in the patent?
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473