Re: LZ: Compression program

Subject: Re: LZ: Compression program
From: Tony Lieuallen <marvin@saturn.superlink.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 17:59:58 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <960907002654_196167470@emout12.mail.aol.com>

On Sat, 7 Sep 1996 Raven906@aol.com wrote:


> Here's my two cents on the compression thread.
> I think that something like this should be implemented in ZShell. Bear with
> me:
> The authors assemble their program, get it to run, then compress it and
> upload it to all the ZShell libraries.
> Got me so far?
> Now, you take the files and transmit them to your calculator. ZShell looks
> for them and displays them in menu format, like usual.
> Now, when you press enter to run a ZShell program, ZShell automatically
> decompresses and deletes. Then it runs the program. When you exit back to
> ZShell, it recompresses it.
> Does that work?


The better way (space wise) would be for it to uncompress, run, delete
uncompressed.  That way it doesn't have to have the compression code on the
calc too.  Also, this way it will go faster.  The only disadvantage is loss of
highscores.


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