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- Tech Chapter 8 - Data compression MetalBase 5.1
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- This shareware release of MetalBase 5.1 has not been registered with the
- author. As shipped, MetalBase 5.1 includes empty hooks for data
- compression in mb_comp.c; if you register this release, you will
- receive replacements for this chapter of documentation and the file
- mb_comp.c, which will provide data-compression.
-
- This is obviously an attempt to get more registered installations; quite
- frankly, though, the primary reason is that I have not had time to write
- compression and decompression routines which fit MetalBase's needs. By
- the time you are reading this, I will have such routines tested and
- available.
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- Data compression will only benefit you if you use multi-length fields (types
- mchar and mbyte); those are the only field types which will be compressed.
- If you use these types of fields but do not register, the fields will
- work perfectly well; your .DAT files will simply take up more space.
- Also note that multi-length fields, as they stand now, are not encrypted;
- if you are concerned with security and wish to use these fields, you will
- need to either register this package or hack an encryption scheme yourself.
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- See the file "register" in the standard documentation directory for information
- on registering MetalBase.
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