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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Shrink it question
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Date: 24 Mar 89 10:30:55 GMT
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Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
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Recently in a few other places (I THINK it was either on Compuserve or over
in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d) I have been seeing some discussion on the next
generation of archivers in the MSDOS world.  Apparently using some multi
directional cross sums (???) a software technique is being developed to 
include in minimal number of bytes enough info to allow reconstruction of
lost data.  If this is indeed the case, it sounds very exciting.  The
ability to have high quality compression AND data reconstruction, while of
course highly desireable, hasnt been widely available in the micro realm.

Perhaps if some of you folks are familar with the techniques you could share
them with us, so that those writing things like dearcs, shrinkits, etc.
could learn.

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