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Date: | Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:29:35 +0800 (GMT) |
From: | Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph> |
To: | Malcolm Taylor <malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz> |
cc: | Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Why not to use 'tar' before packing DJGPP? |
In-Reply-To: | <199611110025.NAA25683@papaioea.manawatu.gen.nz> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SGI.3.93.961111102735.2298A-100000@gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Malcolm Taylor wrote: [...] > for. PKzip uses huffman coding on everything, but arithmetic is > better (slower though) for example. [...] isn't arithmetic coding copyrighted by IBM and Hitachi? it's the reason why the IJG's JPEG code does not implement that particular compression format even though the ISO JPEG standard allows it.
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