To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems using allegro
Message-ID: <19970315.211912.7879.7.chambersb@juno.com>
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From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 00:14:42 EST


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