Re: A83: ASM->PIC

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Subject: Re: A83: ASM->PIC
From: John Kugelman <kugelman@mnsinc.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 23:01:57 -0500
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Scott Dial wrote:
> 
> ERR... Squish is NOT compression!!! I'm tired of ppl think it is! Squish
> is just turning the tokens that respresent the bytes into the actual
> bytes.
> 
> For example:
> A squished program looks like this in a hex editor:
> 01234567890ABCDEF
> 
> The unsquished looks like this in a hex editor:
> 30313233343536373839414243444546
> (which is the tokens for 0123456789ABCDEF)

That looks compressed to me - same data in half the space.  Just because
the compression scheme is incredibly simple doesn't change what it is.

-- 
John Kugelman.  kugelman@mnsinc.com

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