Re: LZ: Variables and Compression


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Re: LZ: Variables and Compression



On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Zenon Lynx wrote:


> It would be nice if such could be done with tokenized TI-Basic programs,
> since tokenizing them seems to increase their size.  It just becomes
> machine language as well right?  It would just be that you wouldn't be ab=
le
> to edit the program unless you uncompressed it...


Tokenizing should not make it bigger.  What it does is take things (like=20
Disp for example) and turn them into weird things (like =A3 for example)=20
that are only one or two bytes.


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