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From: jeff@cullsj.UUCP (Jeffrey C. Fried)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <294@cullsj.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 20:14:52 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <55@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Organization: Cullinet Software, San Jose, CA
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Keywords: protocol compression source
Summary: 13 bit compression is possible on a pc using COMPRESS

In article <55@psuhcx.psu.edu>, wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) 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,
> you need to say comress -b12 filename .
   I've constructed a version of COMPRESS using 13 bits and the small
model by making only one array large.  I've also constructed a version in
BIG mode which runs at half the speed and compress only 10 better using the
full addressing used under UNIX.