Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes

[David Dick]

In <373 at anacom1.UUCP> jim at anacom1.UUCP (Jim Bacon) writes:


>I would strongly urge that only a single compression utility be used as
>a standard, and for UN*X I would suggest compress.

It has been reported that Unisys owns a patent on Zempel-Liv or 
LZW compression (I don't remember which) and believes every current 
use of compress is in violation!

I think they are taking steps to deal with this.

So, if you think "compress" will avoid the legal morass that arose
in the ARC world, you may be in for a surprise.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc.  [the Software Moving Company (sm)]