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Date:      Sat, 05 Dec 1998 16:36:24 +0000
From:      Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
To:        van.woerkom@netcologne.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip?
Message-ID:  <E0zmKgy-0000EK-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Marc van Woerkom's message of "Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:31:23 %2B0100 (CET)"
References:  <199812042331.AAA02402@oranje.my.domain>

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Marc van Woerkom <marc@netcologne.de> writes:
> These files are only about 70% of their gzip counterparts - quite impressive.
> 
> Julian Seward (jseward@acm.org), the author of this program claims extensive
> tests on his web page
> 
>     http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk

I was under the impression that there were several patent issues with
it.  Not sure what though.  It might be worth reading the docs closely.
-- 
``Bernstein versus Venema Celebrity Deathmatch: I see a great need.'' -- MR

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