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From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with Compress
Message-ID: <1493@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 10:22:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: cognos.1493
Posted: Thu Sep 24 10:22:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 13:56:15 EDT
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Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <780@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
! Will people who compress stuff for distribution PLEASE use 12-bit. 16-bit
! uses a huge amount of memory and may not even be available on small machines
! like PDP-11s and Intels.

   Don't suck Intel machines into this -- 16-bit compress is available for
both DOS and Xenix.  It also saves a considerable (meaning not negligible)
amount of space.  Try as I might, I just can't feel sorry for you.  Surely
you have access to some machine that can do 16-bit uncompresses?
-- 
Brian Campbell        uucp: decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!brianc
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