Abraham Lempel, Jakob Ziv and Terry Welch.

Karl

Quoting Dan Larson <dlarson@CITILINK.COM>:
> Oh, yah,,,, try looking for information on the LZ compression algorythm.
> It is the
> pre-cursor to LZW and is not protected, AFAIK. The W is the initial of
> the person
> whom modified LZ into LZW and his company patented it. I think the W
> stand for
> Welch. The L and Z are some strange names that I cannot spell, but
> phonetically
> they sound like "Lem-ph" and "Zip-fell" or something to that effect.
> Sorry it was over
> 10 years ago that I worked with this stuff.
>
> Dan

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