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Subject: Re: New way to post binaries - discussion on format
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Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 17:53:19 EDT
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Summary: 

As a followup to my previous article, I have come across a new encoding
technique (courtesy of the Math Faculty Computing Facility here at
the university) which has the following properties:

	- eight bit input data
	- very restricted character set
	- generally compresses files rather than expanding them
	  (including binaries)
	- need no bit level twiddling
	- involves only table lookup

The encoding system is easy to implement.  I am whipping one up now.

This should make the transmittable archive format very easy to implement.
My co-developer, Mike Gore, is planning to do a Basic (gack spew) version
after I write one in C.

Still:  comments?

Tracy Tims
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