Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Compress
Message-ID: <1989Jul18.172229.18922@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4642@crash.cts.com> <2890@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 17:22:29 GMT

In article <2890@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>>Why not use a 16 bit compression? ...
>
>None of the 16 bit compression programs that I have seen fit in 64K + 64K.

Also, 16-bit compression really does not work that much better than 12.
It helps, but the difference isn't striking.
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