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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <4740@teddy.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 13:04:57 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <55@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Keywords: protocol compression source

>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,
>you need to say comress -b12 filename .

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
that supports HUGE model arrays, or else you have to manually break up the
buffer space into multiple 64K arrays (this is what the version I have does -
The port was done a couple of years ago for XENIX, but it works just fine
under MSDOS as well).
-- 
     john nelson

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