Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce!sol0!cechew From: cechew@sol0.cs.monash.edu.au (Earl Chew) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: wanted: 16bit compress Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 05:10:59 GMT References: <1991Jun26.155515.25831@ira.uka.de> <33902@usc.edu> Sender: news@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU Lines: 18 kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes: >In article <1991Jun26.155515.25831@ira.uka.de> S_WIEZORKE@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Hans B. Wiezorke) writes: >>I am in need of a 16bit compress for minix386. >I am currently working on this. I got the source for a version of >compress that has much conditional stuff for machines like M_XENIX, I took the source for compress from simtel-20 and fiddled it for 16 bit compress. However, the main problem is lack of memory -- ie 64k data is insufficient for 16 bit compression. It works ok on Minix386. It does work s l o w l y with a array paging. Earl -- Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168 EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655778 FAX: 03 5655146 ----------------------------------------------------------------------