Re: A86: Zip?

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Subject: Re: A86: Zip?
From: Kirk Meyer <kirk008@ibm.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:22:46 -0600
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such a program is currently under development. note that LZSS is a much
better compression than Huffman. I am working on such a program, using
the same compression scheme that Lite86 has.

David Phillips wrote:
> 
> Kirk Meyer made a program (available at ticalc.org) that will compress an
> .86p file on the pc and turn it into a self-extracting program.  There are
> limitations, such as requiring that the extracted program to be under the
> (8k?) limit for asm programs.
> 
> Doing a PKZIP program for the calc would be pretty simple, just use huffman
> compression to turn an program var into a string var.  I might work on it
> when I get done with my current project.
> 
> --
> David Phillips
> mailto:electrum@tfs.net
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> AOL/AIM: electrum32

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Re: A86: Zip?

From: David Phillips <electrum@tfs.net>