On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> One argument for LZW would be compatibility with xNOS implementations
> which use SM0RGV's lzw.c code.
I agree. The best thing is to support more compression protocols like ssh,
and if you are outside the EC and scary about patents #undef LZW in compi-
lation. And backward compatibility is useful for xNOS user. A Linux
user could use SSH without encryption and lives almost happy (except on
a bell 202 link, maybe).
73 de Mike
