Re: Free way to decompress LZW archives?
John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> immo vero scripsit
> Debian needs permission to modify as well. There has been a substantial
> non-interest in .LZW decompressors since the Unisys thing in '94, so I
> doubt that lha would be put in main
Please tell me what a .LZW decompressor is.
I thought gunzip could decompress such thing which
was generated by "compress" command.
However my impression is that lha compresses using a combination of the LZSS
and Huffman encoding, which I believe is not LZW.
However, reading the source code gives me an impression that
they might be doing something similar to LZW, but I am no longer quite
sure of details.
regards,
junichi
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