Re: Free way to decompress LZW archives?

2001-07-28 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit Debian needs permission to modify as well. There has been a substantial non-interest in .LZW decompressors since the Unisys thing in '94, so I doubt that lha would be put in main Please tell me what a

Free way to decompress LZW archives?

2001-07-25 Thread Dylan Thurston
I recently came across some data published as a .LZW archive which I want to process. It seems that the standard program for dealing with the archives, lha, is non-free. I found a web page documenting the format; is there any obstruction to producing a free compressor/decompressor? Has anyone

Re: Free way to decompress LZW archives?

2001-07-25 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Dylan Thurston wrote: I recently came across some data published as a .LZW archive which I want to process. It seems that the standard program for dealing with the archives, lha, is non-free. I found a web page documenting the format; is there any obstruction to producing a

Re: Free way to decompress LZW archives?

2001-07-25 Thread John Galt
Replying to my own message, with a WORKING colon key. On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, John Galt wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Dylan Thurston wrote: I recently came across some data published as a .LZW archive which I want to process. It seems that the standard program for dealing with the archives, lha,

Re: Free way to decompress LZW archives?

2001-07-25 Thread Dylan Thurston
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:17:27PM -0600, John Galt wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Dylan Thurston wrote: I recently came across some data published as a .LZW archive which I want to process. It seems that the standard program for dealing with the archives, lha, is non-free. I found a web page

Re: Free way to decompress LZW archives?

2001-07-25 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Dylan Thurston wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:17:27PM -0600, John Galt wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Dylan Thurston wrote: I recently came across some data published as a .LZW archive which I want to process. It seems that the standard program for dealing with the