emulate an end-of-media

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.org
Mon Feb 25 22:40:36 UTC 2008


> 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
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