Re: LZ: Compression program


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Re: LZ: Compression program



list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org wrote:
> 
> 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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Welp, if were trying to save space, programs shouldnt have high scores 
anyways. Besides, you can always hex edit them.


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