ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani) (11/09/88)
A few comments about the new distribution: 1. I have received several requests to make it available in other forms, e.g., tape, disk, anonymous ftp access, etc. I have not been able to answer some of these notes because a local mailer problem deleted the from address. I am looking into other forms of distribution. 2. The compress.exe binary needs a great deal of memory to run with 16-bit codes. Even on a 640K system you will probably need to unload all TSR's. If all else fails, you can always uncompress the archive on a bigger machine and then transfer it to a PC. Dan Lanciani ddl@harvard.*
zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) (11/11/88)
I believe that just the ability to uncompress takes much less memory that the ability to compress/uncompress (assuming compress is broken into two versions for compressing and uncompressing). I've also heard of versions that use files instead of large amounts of memory. Take at look at the source - I believe that it was quite easy to come up with an uncompress only version that didn't need so much memory. -- Jon Zeeff zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us Branch Technology zeeff%b-tech.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI umix!b-tech!zeeff