Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
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Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
> ...a text file comrpesses quite easily because they tend
> to have large chains of constant zero's or constant ones
> and compress easily.
Actually, text files compress so easily because, first off,
they only use the last (or first, depending upon your point
of view) seven bits, and second off, because they often
use easily predictable repeating patterns of characters.
Like for example, there may be 20 instances of
space-o-f-space in a given text file. Huffman compression
schemes (like those implemented on the TI-86) are great
for recognizing repeating patterns in files like this.