Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:2037 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:131 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!burdvax!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission Message-ID: <59@psuhcx.psu.edu> Date: 2 May 88 16:11:20 GMT References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <55@psuhcx.psu.edu> <4740@teddy.UUCP> Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) Organization: Penn State University Lines: 17 Keywords: protocol compression source In article <4740@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes: >>Just one thing that needs to be known -- PC's can do no more than 12-bit >>compression. So if you are compressing your file from a UNIX system, >This myth has been repeated several times, so I felt it was necessary to >speak up. PCs most certainly CAN do a 16 bit compress/uncompress. It >takes 512K of available memory to run, and you also either need a compiler Hard as it is to believe, a lot of people don't have 640k computers... But, I think that this utility would do well to be distributed... mind posting it on comp.binaries.ibm.pc? (Can it do 12-bit also?) Thanks -- __ _ _ _____ Bill Fenner Bitnet: wcf @ psuhcx.bitnet / ) // // / ' Internet: wcf @ hcx.psu.edu /--< o // // ,-/-, _ __ __ _ __ UUCP: ihnp4!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf /___/_<_