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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: ARJ and patents
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Date: 25 Apr 91 14:13:24 GMT
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<see ref> robjung@world.std.com (Robert K Jung) writes:

>The patentable mechanism in LZ77 mechanisms
>usually involves the string searching mechanism.

Oh, goody, are you now telling us you are trying to patent a longest
string match algorithm? This is even worse!!

oz