Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:19:09PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
 > FYI, I invented RLE and I also
 > put it into JMODEM the "last" file-transfer protocol that
 > I created in 1989.  http://www.hal9k.com/cug/v300e.htm

RLE has been around a *lot* longer than that.
There are even several patents long before you 'invented' it.

1975:
 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F4031515

1983:
 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,586,027.WKU.&OS=PN/4,586,027&RS=PN/4,586,027



		Dave

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 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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