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Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/29/07 20:08
"Don Pearce" wrote ...
> I consulted the experts. In other words I went to the PKZIP web site.
> I did a site-wide search for the word CODEC. Guess how many hits I
> got. Guess again - lower. Go on, and again - a bit lower still. There
> yet?
Your choice of "experts" is debatable.
Google returned 752,000 hits for: zip codec
including...
"codec
"(3) (COmpressor-DECompressor) A general data compression
algorithm; for example, a "Zip codec." The term may also be
applied to the built-in algorithms used to create and render
images such as GIFs and JPEGs. See data compression."
http://www.answers.com/topic/codec?cat=technology
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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