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============================== README.list6 ==============================
This is disk 6 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library.
compress Compress reduces the size of the named files using
adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding. The amount of compression
obtained depends on the size of the input, the number of
bits per code, and the distribution of common substrings.
Typically, text such as source code or English is reduced
by 50-60%. Compression is generally much better then that
achieved by Huffman coding (as used in "pack") or
adaptive Huffman coding (as used in "compact"), and takes
less time to compute. Great for saving disk space, or
reducing transmission time over phone lines! Also includes
"btoa" and "atob" for converting binary files to ascii, and
then back to binary (for transmission over links that do
not support 8 bits).
Author: Thomas Spencer, with improvements by others
dadc A digital computer impersonating an analog clock
impersonating a digital clock.
Author: Perry S. Kivolowitz
microemacs An upgraded version of microemacs originally distributed
on disk number 2. I don't have an exact list of changes
but the new executable is about 25% larger, so there must
be something in there! One enhancement is that some
functions are now also bound to function keys.
Author: Dave Conroy, with enhancements by Jack Roose.
mult Mult reads the input comparing adjacent lines. In the
normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated
lines are output, and the remainder of the lines are
removed. Repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be
found. Options are present to output the first of multiple
lines, for comparing adjacent lines by field only, and for
specifying the field separator character. Kind of the
opposite of the Unix "uniq" program.
Author: Dennis Bednar
scales Demonstrates use of the Audio functions in the ROM to
produce four voice sound. It uses a simple waveform
(sawtooth) with no amplitude control (ie, envelope)
or frequency variation (ie, vibrato), but these can be
easily implemented. Also includes considerable
documentation on audio device.
Author: Steven A. Bennett
setparallel Allows the CLI user to dynamically change any particular
parallel port parameter.
Author: Keith Stobie and Tom Pohorsky
setserial Allows the CLI user to dynamically change any particular
serial port parameter.
Author: Keith Stobie and Tom Pohorsky
sortc A quicksort based sort program, using separate driver
and sort modules. Originally from a DECUS C distribution.
Claims to be fast, but when operating entirely out of ram
takes 93 seconds to sort its input file, sort.c, while
AmigaDos's sort takes only 43 seconds under the same
conditions.
Author: Dave Conroy, Martin Minow, and Ray Van Tassle
stripc Strips comments and extraneous whitespace from C source
files. Useful for compacting the C header files to
increase usable disk space.
Author: Chris Metcalf
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