From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263812AbTJORsy (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:48:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263813AbTJORsy (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:48:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:16394 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263812AbTJORsw (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:48:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:48:27 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: "Richard B. Johnson" Cc: Nikita Danilov , Erik Mouw , Josh Litherland , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Transparent compression in the FS Message-ID: <20031015174827.GA11893@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "Richard B. Johnson" , Nikita Danilov , Erik Mouw , Josh Litherland , Linux kernel References: <1066163449.4286.4.camel@Borogove> <20031015133305.GF24799@bitwizard.nl> <16269.20654.201680.390284@laputa.namesys.com> <20031015142738.GG24799@bitwizard.nl> <16269.23199.833564.163986@laputa.namesys.com> <16269.29716.461117.338214@laputa.namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk