Re: A85: Re: Text editor with compression??

To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A85: Re: Text editor with compression??
From: TGaArdvark@aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 02:25:48 EDT
Delivered-To: assembly-85-outgoing@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se
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> If you only want to compress text use static huffman. The adaptive version
> takes up way too much space, text can be compressed rather well using the
> static version. However why would you want compressed text on your TI85 ?
> The keyboard makes it impossible to typer more than a few lines at a time.

Text compresses well with almost anything, let alone huffman (static or
dynamic).

It has uses beyond just user-entered text.  It could be used for online docu-
mentation or a program editor or something that would send information
from a computer.

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