This comes from the blurb for xpdf in linux.announce: > This version contains a workaround for the Unisys LZW patent. > LZW-compressed data is converted (without decompressing) to standard > UNIX compress format, and then uncompress is used to actually do the > decompression. I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to convert gzip files to compress files without recompressing? I haven't seen the patent, but it's just a thought... Thanks, Jeff