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Subject: Re: bzip2 patent status query
To: acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:37:06 +0100 (BST)
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> ...but that's not bzip2. It's the original bzip, which used
> an arithmetic encoding in the final stage. The bzip2 program
> won't even read files created with bzip.

Right, I see...  Sorry about that waste of bandwith, I should have looked at it a bit more closely, I'll try to exit L-user mode before posting in future.

John.
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