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- @(#)README 1.4 11/3/90
-
- Compact is a high speed compression/decompression program that works
- best on large files (>1 meg compressed). On such files, it runs
- 2-3 times faster than the public domain compress program, and compresses
- better.
-
- Compact is PUBLIC DOMAIN, but due to potential patent problems,
- this program may only be used for research into data compression
- techniques. See WARNING section in compact(1) manual page for
- further discussion.
-
- The program currently compiles w/o any special options on all
- system V UNIX releases known to the author which provide at least
- 1 Meg of uniformly addressable memory. It will not run on machines
- (eg 286) with 16 bit integers or 64K segments.
-
- Please forward comments, suggestions and bug reports to me.
- _________________________________________________________________________
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- / ) Gene H. Olson gene@zeno.mn.org
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- (__/ _(/_//_(/_ Minneapolis, MN (612) 824-9108
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