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Re: yabba compressor - why not on prep ?

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From: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 19:14

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>    In the GNUs Bulletin from June 91 I read from yabba replacing
>    compress for GNU software in the future. What I don't understand
>    is, why is yabba not available on prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory
>    pub/gnu ? It's not that I didn't find yabba elsewhere like on
>    sun.soe.clarkson.edu but I think if the FSF announces that they
>    will switch to another compression program it would be a good idea
>    to put this program on the machine where GNU software is available
>    first so that people can try this new compression (sorry for this
>    monster of words but I'm german :)) ).

> The new compression program will be announced and placed on
> prep.ai.mit.edu, when we are ready to do the switch.

RMS announced a month or two ago that about a week before the FSF was
planning to release the yabba-based compression program, a patent on
its algorithm was announced.
--
David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>

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