Re: A little compression...

[ramswell <shifty_butch@hotmail.com>]

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.



  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