<< So far they've only used this technique on short strings of data. Whether longer strings will work remains a mystery. They don't seem to be able to do so, so far, so I wouldn't hold my breath for the first compression tool based on this technology. >>
Yeah right, like they didn't try it out with long strings right after short ones. Put yourself in the shoes of the developer with his hands on an algo that could really do it all.....he wouldn't hesitate to tout it could do it all, and it would be hush hush until ready for the market and then wham! One day you woke up and winzip 1.0 was ready for download, remember? I don't remember any speculation on that, was more like one day it just arrived. Course it was just a DOS app back then. But then again I wasn't visiting forums back then either.
Anyone remember how winzip came about?