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- Message-ID: <577471@363.chatlink.com>
- From: Bios@sys363.chatlink.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Path: news.chatlink.com!netaccess
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 00:04:59 PST
- Subject: COMP.SYS.CBM: General FAQ
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- NA>I have had some compplaints that the size of each part of the FAQ is too big
- NA>as most fl=olks cannot read the FAQ on a 64. SO, I played around with makin
- NA>each section < 32kB. In order to do that, I made 9 parts to the FAQ.
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- NA>Also, I know some feel the FAQ is getting large. Should I chop out parts?
- NA>Should I trim parts? What should I do to make things better?
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- Jim, a possibility is either a self extracting archive (compressed)
- or to use your own compression scheme and compress the text. ASCII
- text is the easiest thing to compress. An easy method is to use
- one byte to represent a word and have something like 128 keywords
- in a lookup table. The other 128 bytes would then be used to
- represent standard text. Of course, this means writing a program
- to read this format.
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- Benjamin !!
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