Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!mimsy!jds
From: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: compress
Summary: I'm skeptical
Message-ID: <26719@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 90 14:46:27 GMT
References: <31571@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Reply-To: jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
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In article <31571@nigel.ee.udel.edu> michael@sunham.germany.sun.com
(Michael Joswig (Vertriebsunterstuetzung Hamburg)) writes:
>
>Eyal (???) writes:
>>> In article <8BmTP2w163w@sloth.UUCP> brog@sloth.UUCP (Chris Brougham) writes:
>>>Can anyone tell me if minix 1.5 for the PC runs a 16 bit compress--
>>>this is important for my newsfeeds?
>>>
>>No. Only small model supported. I think it can do 12 (or 13) bits max.
>
>Sorry to correct you, but I have ftp'ed a 16bit compress some days
>ago which works fine. If there are more people interested in, I can
>try to remember where I got it (It must be some of those ftp-markets
>mentioned in the Info_Sheet)(Or not...).
>It was named "comress" that's all I can say for now.
>

Michael,

Are you CERTAIN that this version of compress you mention will uncompress
16bit-compressed files under normal PC Minix?  You aren't talking about DOS
or 32-bit Minix?

If so, please do let us know where you got it.  Such a beast would be quite
a feat of bit-bumming: the normal compress wants more than 400k of data
space to do 16bit compress/uncompress.

Jaime
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