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From: satan@geac.UUCP (The Big One Himself)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with Compress
Message-ID: <1488@geac.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 15:56:03 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 15:56:03 1987
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Reply-To: gerry@syntron.UUCP (G. Roderick Singleton)
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In article <1493@cognos.UUCP> brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) writes:
>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
>Cognos Incorporated   mail: POB 9707, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, K1G 3Z4
>(613) 738-1440        fido: sysop@163/8

Sorry Brian, not all of us are on the fed's gravy train with access to ATs
and RTs and other expensive new hardware, we must cope with DOS or Venix on 
PCs or XTs, or else old PDP-11s.  None of which support 16-bit compress

By the way, locating a friendly site with a set of tools can sometime be
a big problem when the overall gain of transferring a 12-bit compressed
image versus a 16-bit image is very small (not negigilbe but small).  Since
you indicate that the request is an imposition, please post your sources
for your wonderful compress, otherwise, you should, perhaps, switch feet 
before venting any frustration you might be experiencing.

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