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- From: gingell@aurs01.UUCP (Mike Gingell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: IR95 is excellent
- Message-ID: <61869@aurs01.UUCP>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 15:17:46 GMT
- References: <1idk4tINN4f@uwm.edu> <1348@pivot-sts.sbi.com>
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- Reply-To: gingell@aurw6b.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (Mike Gingell)
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- Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC
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- In article <1348@pivot-sts.sbi.com> kdale@flatline.sbi.com writes:
- >
- >I actually came across as instance where myRemote couldn't learn
- >my older Sharp VHS remote, but ir95 picked it up without a hitch.
- >That says to me that the learning algorithm is more robust.
- >
-
- I have both programs and from what I can tell ir95 records the
- ir on off transitions for as long as you hold the key down. It
- just saves them as is with no optimization. On the one hand this
- is good because it can handle any sequence but on the other hand
- you can run out of disk space fast. For instance my Pioneer
- multicassette deck takes about 3400 bytes for myREMOTE whereas
- ir95 uses about 18000 bytes. It sort of makes progam size
- irrelevant.
-
- myREMOTE must do some data reduction on the ir file. I looked
- at a file generated for one command by ir95 and I see the same
- sequence of words repeated again and again. It is really only
- neccessary to store one copy and then repeat it for as long
- as the key is held down.
-
- Mike Gingell, Alcatel, Raleigh, NC USA (919) 850-6444
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