Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!vmsa.technion.ac.il!ben From: ben@vmsa.technion.ac.il (Ben Pashkoff) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Lempel-Ziv Implemenation Message-ID: <633@vmsa.technion.ac.il> Date: 26 Dec 89 12:35:51 GMT References: <10690@venera.isi.edu> <1989Nov30.144334.7215@alzabo.uucp> <56000@looking.on.ca> <45686@sgi.sgi.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Israel Lines: 21 In article <45686@sgi.sgi.com>, bron@bronze.wpd.sgi.com (Bron Campbell Nelson) w rites: > In article <56000@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >> There is no such thing as a public domain Lempel Ziv Welch. The algorithm >> is patented by Unisys. >> > -- There is a PD Lempel-Ziv based compression routine in C on almost all the DECUS SIG tapes. ________________________________________________________________________ | | | Ben Pashkoff BEN@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL | | BEN@TECHMAX.BITNET | | BEN@TECHUNIX.BITNET | | VAX/VMS Systems | | Computer Center | | Technion IIT Phone:(972)-4-292177 | | Haifa, Israel 32000 FAX: (972)-4-221581 | |______________________________________________________________________|