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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: lzhuf.c copyright condition
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Date: 11 Apr 89 17:24:43 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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If anyone is trying to do anything useful with lzhuf.c on non-PC
machines, note the following:
 1) getbit/getbyte are 16 bit speciffic and must be changed. The changes
    are obvious.

 2) there is (at least) one other bug which I haven't found, causing
    looping when compressing certain files. I only see it on about 0.3% of
    the files, so I haven't pinpointed it yet.

 3) there appears to be a problem on machines which don't store least
    significant byte first. At any rate I get different failures on such
    machines than 386/VAXen.

  I would like to hear from anyone working on making the original
program more portable.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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