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- From: bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Compression
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.111610.18882@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 11:16:10 GMT
- References: <cheungc.711801996@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Jul23.053515.4271@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <sheldon.711902145@pv1413.vincent.iastate.edu> <Brur60.4zG@unx.sas.com>
- Sender: bombadil@ask.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 24
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- jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Well, not quite - the newest version is V1.00b, and it does not
- compress files, only decompresses (I should know since I wrote it!).
- But I've been working on this, and it's almost finished now.
-
- Anyway, the compressing version is sceduled to be on the next Xpk
- update with deadline 5th of august, so I would like some help with
- getting it stable before then. If you can spare a few hours in the
- next couple of days giving it a comprehensive beta-test, give me a
- mail and I'll see that you receive it when it's ready (specify ftp or
- e-mail). I think it's VERY important for a filing system to be stable.
-
- (BTW: I can't send you the Xpk stuff, you'll need to get that
- yourself).
-
- - Kristian
-
- email: bombadil@diku.dk
-