On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > Exactly. Nothing wrong with AMATERSE, but deflate (RFC 1951) is the most popular and widely used file format. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies
