Re: A little compression...

["Sam Hobbs" <samuel@social.rr.com_change_social_to_socal>]

"ramswell" <shifty_butch@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On May 23, 3:50 pm, Harry Potter <maspethro...@aol.com> wrote:
>> On May 23, 11:43 am, Harry Potter <maspethro...@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I am in the process of creating a file compression program.  It
>> > already does better than PKZip's deflate/maximum technique, but I
>> > still have work to do on it.  It is a 32-bit technique, but I think I
>> > can manage on a 6502/C02, although very slowly.  My goal is an average
>> > 3:1 compression ratio.  If I succeed, would anybody here be interested?
>>
>> I have to apologize to CBM and Apple 2 owners: this compression
>> technique won't work on 8-bit computers, and probably not on 16-bit
>> computers as well: it uses a 32k dictionary size, and uses C++.  It is
>> also memory-intensive: the Win32 executable is of now 63k in length.
>> I need to convert some code to assembler for speed--I used C++ code
>> for testing.
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>
>  Forgive me for coming off as an idiot, but what exactly is
> "compression," and what does it do? I'm assuming that it's some sort
> of software for archiving is it not?
>
>
>   Charles


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