Re: AutoArk

[90taobri@WAVE.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Paul Benson's lips:
> 
> 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?

    Compressing a MOD with ACE would give amusing results, to say the
least... all the non-sample parts (instrument list, note sequences,
etc.) would come out all garbled.  Compressing plain binary sound files
with ACE would be nice.

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