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From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
Organization: Arachne Fan Club
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:29:09 -0500
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: LZW (was PKZIP 2.50 for DOS)
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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.


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