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Re: nomarch-1.2 - Problems with RLE patent 4,586,027



On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:11:24AM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2002 21:45:17 -0700 Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net> wrote:
> > Other things that use RLE:
> > 
> > 	SDL_image
> > 	Quake 2
> > 	GIMP
> > 	Just about any graphics viewer
> > 	imlib
> > 	gdk-pixbuf
> 
>        pascal strings
>        forth strings

These two dot NOT use RLE.  They use one
byte to denote the total length of the
string, but they do not use repeat counts to
compress sequences of repeated characters.

Jochen
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