Re: LZ: Variables and Compression
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Andrew Haninger wrote:
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> about the compression stuff, i'm starting on a compression program that
> should compress string vars. although, with the method i'm usingg, i need
> some way(in tibasic) to figure out if a subbed character is a character or
> a number. is this possible? here is how i hope it will work in the future:
> the string "99A" will uncompress to 99 uppercase A's so, with this method,
> the zshell games won't compress too well since there aren't too many
> characters in them that are consecutively congruent. although, if i can
> find out how to convert them to binary strings, i would hope that they would
> shrink tremendously. i hope this works..............
>
>
> Andy Haninger
> aka &y
> ahaning@freenet.columbus.oh.us
A month or two ago, two people said they would work together on
compression, but I don't know what came of it. You can check the lz
archives to find the people.
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