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["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <grg3bo$dhr$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Per Jessen wrote:
> jdd wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel-Ziv-Markov_chain_algorithm
> Yeah, it's really quite old, but somehow lzma has been living a life in
> the unknown for quite some time.  Well, unknown to me, anyway.

IIRC, it didn't make its way into BSD/Linux for a while because there were 
some outstanding patents using the underlying Lempel-Ziv algorithm for 
compression.
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