Message-ID: From: "Glenn McCorkle" Organization: Arachne Fan Club Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:29:09 -0500 X-Mailer: Arachne V1.67 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: LZW (was PKZIP 2.50 for DOS) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:53:48 +1100, Da Silva, Joe wrote: > Hi Glenn! :-) > The problem with computers is that they are stupid. So, when you > ask a computer to look for "LZW", that's exactly what it does ... ;-) > However, if a human were to read "appnote.txt" (I presume the > URL you quoted is just a HTML version of the same text), they > would instantly recognize that LZW was an abbreviation for > "Lempel", "Ziv" and "Welch", which is how LZW is refered > to in the body of the text, in regard to the "shrink" compression > method ... Well son-of-a-gun. I stand corrected. Till now, I didn't know the meaning of the 3 letters "LZW". So, we are back to your point about InfoZip not supporting LZW. If it doesn't... then it will be unable to "shrink" files. And I would then assume that it would be unable to "unshrink" files which have been "shrunk" by PKzip. -- Glenn (your friendly neighborhood compu-nerd) http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/