Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/16/00:26:58
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997 03:19:16 +0100 Francois Charton
<deef AT pobox DOT oleane DOT com> writes:
>Mark T Logan wrote:
>>
>> has targa support(as of 2.2). I agree that GIF and JPG would be
>good,
>> but I
>> know nothing about these formats except that GIF uses LZH, or
>whatever
>> that algorithm is called. Same one as PKZIP uses.
>
>GIF uses LZW as its compression algorithm. PKZIP uses LZSS, which is
>not
>the same at all (though it was invented by the same two researchers,
>Lempel and Ziv, hence the name similarity).
Wasn't LZW Lempel-Ziv-Welsh? (I can never remember their names, but at
least I know what they start with :)
...Chambers
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