Re: LZ: Compression program
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At 11:41 PM 9/5/96 -0400, you wrote:
>To see if it's worth doing, I have two questions. What's the approximate
>size of the unzipper on the calc(assuming the zipper is on the
>computer)?...and what would be the approximate compression ratio? I haven't
>been paying too much attention to this thread, but I saw somewhere a 46%,
>which would be pretty good.
I honestly don't know what type of compression we can get, but I know that it
will be a hell of a lot better than no compression at all. The unzipper
doesn't have to be large at all.. think about it: all it needs is the routine
to unzip, everything else is stored in the actual ZIP file.
-- Scott Rein
srein@rain.org
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