A86: Compression Program

A86: Compression Program

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• Subject: A86: Compression Program
• From: David Phillips <electrum@tfs.net>
• Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 23:59:03 -0500
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I was thinking it would be very cool to have a compression system like
double space and pklite and pkzip for the 86.  Here's how it would work:

-A new variable type would be created for compressed programs (or strings
or programs could be used, but a new type would be much better).
-A user defined function [like CAsm(] would be used to decompress and
automatically run the program
-Another user function would compress strings and programs to the new format
-Possible one more to convert compressed vars back to original format

It would be nice to patch into to one of the [sqrt] programs (not sure
which) so a call to Asm( or such by the shell would automatically run the
new loader.  Is anyone working on this?  If not, I'm going to give it a shot.



// David Phillips
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