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From: robert@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Robert Morelos-Zaragoza)
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Subject: Re: Reed-Solomon Code (public domain or commercial)
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Date: 20 Jun 91 23:51:51 GMT
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In article <1991Jun10.233043.19875@erg.sri.com> gd@erg.sri.com (Greg DesBrisay) writes:
>
>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

You are in luck my friend :-)

I do have a program that will encode/decode information using a
Reed-Solomon Code over a Galois Field GF(2^m), for m <=8.
I did it long time ago for my bachelor's thesis, back in the
National University of Mexico. It is written in FORTRAN. It uses
the conventional Berlekamp-Massey algorithm in decoding.

If anyone out there is interested, I will be happy to send the
source code.

Greetings and Aloha !!!



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