On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Benedict P. Barszcz wrote:
> Long ago there was a suggestion here on the list to include lzw
> compression in the ax25-utils as a library liblzw. This would
> facilitate importing it into other programs. There already exists a
> library libz that some programs use (IRC) and sources zlib-1.1.2
> include an example.c how to use it with its own RFC 1950 - 1952.
> If someone could do that one wouldn't have to redo the stuff all over
> again for things like TPP,POP,SMTP.
>
> Or perhaps someone has already done that:-)?
Why liblzw, why not use libz as it is?
Which, btw, is already happening, the forthcoming ax25 library set will
include Tomi's socket IO library extension with zlib support. Things like
node will support it out of the box. Stay tuned...
LZW has patent restrictions, and zlib's LZ77 is generally better
anyway. Beats bare huffman coding as well.
- Hessu
