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From: gz@cambridge.apple.com (Gail Zacharias)
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Subject: Re: WANTED: News compression information...
Message-ID: <234@brazil.cambridge.apple.com>
Date: 31 May 90 17:06:35 GMT
References: <1990May29.202056.26271@ox.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cambridge, MA
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In article <1990May29.202056.26271@ox.com> time@ox.com (Tim Endres) writes:
>Most people have indicated that "compress", the PD version, is what
>is normally used for news compression. This would *seem* fine, but
>the darn thing requires 500K RAM just to uncompress. This not only
>seems extraordinary, but I can not see how implementations on a PC
>limited to 640K could even work.

I have a program (actually, a set of library routines) that will do
unix-compatible compression on the Mac.  The worst case uncompression (16 bit)
requires 200K.

I'd be happy to send it to anybody who asks.  It's about 20K of MPW assembler
source, for functions meant to be called from MPW C.

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