Re: AutoArk

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <19930113.064644.93@almaden.ibm.com> Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson) writes:
>Andy - I can't remember, can HP choose a compression scheme based upon
>filetype?  For example, if it senses a MOD or an rSound, can it run
>ACE instead of LZW?

Filetype, auxtype, and suffix (so you can avoid .SHK, .GIF, and so on).  It's
actually more flexible than this, but the user interface has a nasty habit
of changing because I keep getting all these neat ideas from the testers, so
I don't want to go into depth.

I have no plans to write an ACE module, because doing lossy compression
automatically strikes me as being a bad idea.  From what I remember of the
ACE tools though, it would be almost trivial to do.

>Pauley
>GEnie: P.Benson1

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