Re: LZ: a zipping utility

Subject: Re: LZ: a zipping utility
From: barrym <barrym@neosoft.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 20:56:54 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960904194109.13607F-100000@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, barrym wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, SAM STAUFFER wrote:
> 
> > The encryption program could be made to probably a minimum of 5k. If you
> > use a good compression algorithm, such as the  BWT Transformation along
> > with RLE and Arithmetic compression (Which is better than Deflation,
> > what ZIP uses), it was presented in the September 96 issue of Dr. Dobbs.
> 
> 5k is way too much.  I have a Huffman encoding routine with a
> seperate decoder that are about 12 or 14k each.  If they're only
> 85% as efficient, that's still way better.  Of course only
> the decompressor would have to be on the calculator.
> 
> Barry

Pardon me for replying to my own post, but that's just plain wrong.
Those programs (and they are programs with file handling, etc, not
just routines) are about 1.2k or 1.4k each.  When I catch somebody
telling this big a fib, I just can't let it go by.  :)

Barry

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