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From: gd@erg.sri.com (Greg DesBrisay)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Reed-Solomon Code (public domain or commercial)
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.233043.19875@erg.sri.com>
Date: 10 Jun 91 23:30:43 GMT
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1) Several weeks ago Steve Jaffe posted a note asking for information
on any public domain code to Reed-Solomon decoding of data.  Were
there any responses to Steve's inquiry?  Are there any public domain
codes available?  The Motorola BBS has some code that *en*codes data
for the Reed-Solomon code used on CDs (that's the easy part), but I
havn't been able to find any code for *de*coding the data.

2) Does anybody know of commercially available Reed-Solomon encoding
and decoding software that can be purchased?

Thanks in advance!

Greg DesBrisay
gd@sri.com