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- **** LINO - ReadMe ****
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- LINO V1.0, 1995 - (c) Gerhard Tuenkler
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- LINO is a file to file packer, which compresses/expands files or directories.
- It includes a 'XPK compression interface' (about XPK see lino.doc), to use
- compression software, which is written for this standard.
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- Data compression is a software technic to spare space on disk or tape.
- There are different algorithms to do this. From a simple Run-Length-Encoding
- which replaces a sequence of equal bytes with one of this bytes and the
- number of these bytes, as far as the Arithmetic Coding, where the
- probability of a byte within a file determines the code.
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- Applications for data compression are archiving files, backup storage,
- and harddisk compressing.
- There are some very good freeware, shareware and commercial applications
- which have a XPK-interface implemented.
- For example: the XPK-package with XFH (a harddisk compressor) on Fish 754,
- EPU (also a harddisk compressor) on Fish 858, ABackup (a backup utility)
- on Fish 838 (for some references see file lino.doc).
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- This package contents:
- LINO a file to file packer (with source code)
- XLIN like lino, but includes 4 packers
- xpkZENO.library a LZ78 packer
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- If you send me 15 $ / 20 DM / 140 OeS , you get the external versions of
- the 4 packers LIN1-4, so you can use them with every XPK-application.
- If you have some ideas, critics or another desire, please write to:
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- Gerhard Tuenkler
- Th. Koerner Str. 40/3/11
- A-8010 Graz
- AUSTRIA
- EUROPE
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- Gerhard Tuenkler
- A-8551 Wies 23
- AUSTRIA
- EUROPE
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