Re: LZ: Compression program
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At 12:26 AM 9/7/96 -0400, you 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?
Yes, unfortunately you can't exactly "plug" a program into ZShell. It would
have to be in version 5.0 or so. Your idea, though, is what I am going to
_try_ to write. Just a shell to run the programs compressed on the calculator.
In other words, you compress them on the computer, send it as one BIG zipped
file (of course you also need the decompressor and zshell), and then you run
the decompressor and it will "on the fly" decompress and run the program. You
will need some temporary space on the calculator, but if the compression is as
much as I hope it will be, that won't be a problem.
We'll see....
-- Scott Rein
srein@rain.org
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