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?
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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.