Re: emulate an end-of-media

From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:43:29 +0100

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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Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com
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