Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:43:29 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emulate an end-of-media Message-ID: <200802252243.m1PMhTeq016201@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <47C33384.6040701@dial.pipex.com> References: <op.t63j2veq724k7f@martin> <20080225154455.4822e72a@bhuda.mired.org> <47C33384.6040701@dial.pipex.com>
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> Why compress? It's ancient technology and will be vastly outperformed Also some nasty person has a software patent on compress (they filed the patent application, published the code & waited some years till lots got hooked, but they didnt patent decompress algorithm & everyone decompresseed & went to better freer tools :-) Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com
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