Re: LZ: Compression program

Subject: Re: LZ: Compression program
From: barrym <barrym@neosoft.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 10:33:00 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <960907002654_196167470@emout12.mail.aol.com>

On Sat, 7 Sep 1996 Raven906@aol.com wrote:

> Here's my two cents on the compression thread.
> I think that something like this should be implemented in ZShell. Bear with
> me:
> The authors assemble their program, get it to run, then compress it and
> upload it to all the ZShell libraries.
> Got me so far?
> Now, you take the files and transmit them to your calculator. ZShell looks
> for them and displays them in menu format, like usual.
> Now, when you press enter to run a ZShell program, ZShell automatically
> decompresses and deletes. Then it runs the program. When you exit back to
> ZShell, it recompresses it.
> Does that work?

That works for people that need it, but it wastes space for
people like me, that don't.  I wouldn't personally have any
use for a compression program on the 85.  I don't keep enough
stuff on board.  But if you added it to zshell, i'd have 1 or
2 k less ram available.

Barry

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