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From: walt@rclex.UUCP (Walter L. Weber)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: compression of image files?
Message-ID: <758@rclex.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-May-86 23:26:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: rclex.758
Posted: Tue May 20 23:26:38 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 24-May-86 18:08:23 EDT
References: <752@rclex.UUCP> <285@atari.UUcp>
Organization: Ridge Computers (Eastern Region), Lexington, MA
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Keywords: 520st neochrome degas compression
Summary: original question now rephrased

In article <285@atari.UUcp>, neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris) writes:
> In article <752@rclex.UUCP>, walt@rclex.UUCP (Walter L. Weber) writes:
>> Has anyone ever seen or used an encoding or compression algorithm
>> to store image files?  
> On the Atari Corp. BBS (408-745-5308) in SIG #7 (ST Art), you will find two
> programs -- a squeezer and an unsqueezer.  We squeeze all pictures.....

What I meant to ask was if such a scheme existed which could be used on
an image file from within a program;  in that way a "slideshow" or "animated"
demo/tutorial would be able to be more miserly with it's use of disc for
the images.  I am thinking of run-length-encoding schemes, but have yet
to see anyone talk about it here on the net.

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