USER@DJUKFA53.BITNET (04/27/88)
Hi atarians.
Can anyone send me an Arc-file with the new level 9 compressing
method (called 'squached'). I want to implement this method into
my VMSARC program. Please send the file if possible uuencoded.
Thanks
Christian Bode USER@DJUKFA53.BITNETrosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) (04/29/88)
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In article <8804271609.AA26681@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> USER@DJUKFA53.BITNET writes:
->Hi atarians.
->
->Can anyone send me an Arc-file with the new level 9 compressing
->method (called 'squached'). I want to implement this method into
->my VMSARC program. Please send the file if possible uuencoded.
->
->Thanks
->
-> Christian Bode USER@DJUKFA53.BITNET
while rooting around on compu$erv last nite, i ran across pkunarc.arc
(a stripped-down version of pkxarc for the ST). it claims to unsquash
squashed arcs, though i have not tried it. it was either in "go atari16"
dl 3 or "go midi" dl ? if u want to get it yourself.
if this is old news, sorry. if not, i'll try it out and post here (unless
someone can tell me in 25 words or less how to get it to comp.binaries.atari.st
without bitnet, only uucp). just give me a couple of days...
-bill
p.s. it's probably on genie as well (i haven't had time to check)Thomas_E_Zerucha@cup.portal.com (04/30/88)
Squashed is Crunched, but using an extra bit (13 v.s. 12), and no repeat packing. I wrote an unarc for the ST supporting it (pkunarc might be it under a different name - pk are the PC version author's initals). There is VMS source available (I found elsewhere) that was _supposed_ to do unsquashing, and I simply hacked it until it worked for the ST. Actually, the compression used by ARC/PKARC comes right out of compress (also available on USENET), but hacked differently (repeat packing added for crunching, limiting to X bits, etc.).