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From: chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Unix worthy Compress/Uncompress for the PC
Summary: DOES TOO, DOES TOO, . . .
Message-ID: <9763@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 18 Oct 89 13:48:15 GMT
References: <1240@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <40116@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <9673@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <126274@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <126274@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, saj%yipeia@Sun.COM (Scott A. Jordahl) writes:
> In article <9673@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett) writes:
> >
> >The 4.3 version of the compress source is completely compatible with MSDOS
> >and the Microsoft C compiler (I can post or mail the compiled executable
> >to anyone without Microsoft or Turbo C).

I have mailed the source and executable file to Rahul to be posted to the
binaries group.

> But only allows 12-Bit maximum compression when compilied on MSDOS (look
> at the #defines).  16-Bit is soooooo much better.  See my posting regarding
> U16.EXE (U16 uses some assemble code to allow 16-Bit on the PC).

The .exe file I sent to the binaries group does do 16-bit uncompression
(as well as 16-bit compression) -- it is not quite as fast as u16, but
being all C code, it really does quite well.

> -- Scott
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