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From: svetozar@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Eric C. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIgs Unzip thing
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Date: 27 Mar 91 15:45:02 GMT
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Hi again.  I just sent a letter to you (no, none of your letters ever arrived)
about this unzip stuff.  Just in case it doesn't get to you, I decided to
write a little message here.

Other stuff: I would tend to agree that the Orca/C optimizer is not correct. 
Nearly everyone who has ported a large application to the IIgs using Orca/C
has experienced this for him/herself; perhaps v1.2 will be different.

Speaking of LZH on the gs, has anyone attempted to make use of the source for
Haruyasu Yoshizaki's (sp?) LHA v2.11?  Compression seems to be on a par with
PKZIP, although uncompression seems 2-3 times slower (love that Turbo
Profiler).  One can only hope the current talk of hours to compress System.504
is due to the Orca/C compiler, not the underlying algorithm.  Oh well.

Other thing: as per the suggestion of some helpful folks, I've started looking
for ways to improve my Unzip thing's file i/o.  If/when the changes result in
a working program, I'll probably upload it to that "binaries" thing.

Also, I'm attempting to write some more helpful comments to the source code;
when this has been accomplished, I'll try to figure out how to upload that,
too.

Bye.

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