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From: u9039899@cs.uow.edu.au (Darrin Jon Smart)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: A new idea! (Re: ARJ source format)
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.054249.28057@cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: 25 Apr 91 05:42:49 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.220925.15898@world.std.com>
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University
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robjung@world.std.com (Robert K Jung) writes:
 
>ARJ is coded in ANSI C for porting purposes.  However, ARJ 2.00 for the
>IBM PC is optimized to assembler to more than double the compressor
>and extractor speeds.  I am sorry if this information was buried in
>my documentation.  (I maintain two source libraries).

Here's an idea: How about compiling a C library for compression and
decompression only so that programmers can compress raw data without having
to shell out to other programs. The idea is that one routine takes a block
of data and returns a compressed block of data. Would that be difficult?

I remember this was done by an LZW compression writer for CP/M, his modules
were pure assembler though.

 - Darrin