On Aug 12, 2011, at 14:22, Kirk Wolf wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Which W do you want - Welch or Wegner? (Welch -> ZIP, Wegner ->
>> AMATERSE, roughly.) Of course some of this is in millicode on current
>> machines, but it isn't an exact match for either.
>>
>
> Sorry, my mistake - LZW isn't what I meant. More valuable would be deflate
> (RFC 1951).
>
Could this be substituted for the critical parts of zlib?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib
http://zlib.net/
How much better is AMATERSE than Deflate? Of course AMATERSE
supports IBM-peculiar file formats; others don't.
-- gil
