On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Leszek A. Szczepanowski wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
>
> > LZW has patent restrictions, and zlib's LZ77 is generally better
> > anyway. Beats bare huffman coding as well.
>
> Ok, but what with all those nos'es (JNOS, TNOS) etc which
> people uses? We want LZW in SMTP,POP etc. just because
> it was previously in JNOS and TNOS and other xNOS'es
> software! Do you really think that people immediately
> change their programs for some with 'new' compression?
> TNOS is extremely unstable, and in my case this is only
> reason I want LZW in POP and SMTP serwers on Linux!
JNOS and TNOS should also get LIBZ support, and we really should
phase out LZW support. It's bad! Way bad!
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73 - Dave Brown N2RJT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
