Re: LZ: Compression program


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Re: LZ: Compression program



> > 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.
> 
not to mention thaty it's be only effective for zshell programs... i 
suppose that you'd also want to comress ti-basic programs and lists 
etc..


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