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- From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
- Subject: Re: Compression
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:27:35 GMT
- References: <cheungc.711801996@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Jul23.053515.4271@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <sheldon.711902145@pv1413.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- In article <sheldon.711902145@pv1413.vincent.iastate.edu>, sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
- >In <1992Jul23.053515.4271@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown) writes:
- >
- >>In article <cheungc.711801996@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> cheungc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Carson Cheung) writes:
- > [lots of text about "on-the-fly" compression programs]
- >
- > But, at any rate, I am not aware of anything similar to Superstor for the
- >Amiga. It's entirely possible that this could be done. But I don't know
- >if the speed would be acceptable on a 68000 based machine. And I'm sure
- >the user base would not support the development effort, as there is a
- >great deal of beta testing that must be done with a product of this nature.
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- Check out the XPK stuff, probably on amiga.physik. One of the pieces of
- that distribution is a filehandler named XFH, which will do compress
- files as they are written to it, and decompress them as they are read
- from it. It should be exactly what you are talking about.
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