Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!russ
From: russ@percival.UUCP (Russ Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ARC 5.21b
Message-ID: <1309@percival.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 16:58:44 GMT
References: <386@clio.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Reply-To: russ@percival.UUCP (Russ Schwartz)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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["Big Time Television, where two's company and three's an audience."
 - Max Headroom ]

Since people seem to be porting ARC over to the ST and making mods to it
anyway, why not add a buffer that allocates as much memory as it needs for
the compressing/decompressing process so it will speed it up?

There is a program (sharware) called DCOPY by Ralph Walden that does this
very thing but it's attached to a menu driven shell that does a lot of other
stuff I could do without.

Anybody willing to try it?

Russell Schwartz                    ["This is another fine myth you've gotten
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