[A83] Re: A programming question for a change :-)

[A83] Re: A programming question for a change :-)

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• Subject: [A83] Re: A programming question for a change :-)
• From: Harper Maddox <gte172i@prism.gatech.edu>
• Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:25:58 -0400
• In-Reply-To: <200106252305.f5PN5kY08839@sunsparc.hysoft-automation.com>
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At 01:05 AM 6/26/2001 +0200, you wrote:

>Okay,
>I'm thinking about adding a compressed e-book reader to Nifty,
>but I'm not sure how I should do it, I have a few different ideas:
>
>Compression: Huffman
>
>-Compress every page on itself, and put all those compressed pages in a file
>  (Low Compression)
>
>-Compress about 3-5 pages each time, and decompress into a (temporary)
>  appvar for reading.
>
>
>Any other insights?

compress the book via huffman.  use an executable program on your PC to 
generate the appvars that contain the compressed data.  Decompress one 
(current) page at a time into a temporary buffer (apd).  thats how i would 
do it.

• [A83] Re: A programming question for a change :-)
• From: james l <james@kirk.math.twsu.edu>

• [A83] A programming question for a change :-)
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