[Coco] M.E.S.S. Printing

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:07, Gene Heskett wrote:
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>
>Anyway, PNG was written originally to get around the lemple-zev
>compression patent owned by unisys.  It would up morphing into
>something even more capable in the form of PNM, for Portable Network
>Movies I believe is what that stands for.

Correction, lemple-zev-welch, aka lzw.  And, except for the block 
sorting bzip2, still the best compression I'm aware of today.

But bzip2 can occasionally make a mistake during recovery, depending 
on the phase of the moon and your choice of chew.  The mistake will 
be invisible, but the code won't compile until you blow that tree 
away and unpack it again.  Sometimes you even have to re-download it. 
Un-Funny thing is, the md5sums of the bad file and the good file are 
the same.  So if the site gives me a choice, I usually grab the 20% 
larger .gz version, I know it works.

Also "It would" s/b "It wound".
>
>Your history lesson for the day, as recalled by Gene :-)

Darned fingers don't always type what I think :(

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>Cheers, Gene
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Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III at 500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP at 1400mhz  512M
99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
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