Re: LZ: a zipping utility

Subject: Re: LZ: a zipping utility
From: barrym <barrym@neosoft.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 18:37:19 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.93.960906170201.1016A-100000@saturn.superlink.net>

On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Tony Lieuallen wrote:

> Okay.  I think that this has been discussed a lot, and decided that it will be
> benefitial to a lot of people.  Since the compression would most likely be on
> the computer, it would be very likely that adding in this BWT later wouldn't be
> too hard.  I hope whoever is gonna do this eventually will do it soon.
> Hmm.  Maybe this is a sugestion to add in ZShell 5.0.  Make it do the
> uncompression automatically, then delete the program.   That would be cool.

Yep, real cool.  But a lot of people won't need the compressor.
No use wasting all their ram.

If someone does do this, you might want to consider letting it
compress picture files or groups of picture files.  That might
make for some additional saving of ram.

Barry

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