unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (03/27/91)
In article <50784@apple.Apple.COM> shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) writes: >> Todd Whitesel (I GOT THE NAME RIGHT TODD!) wrote this doubly quoted junk >>I wrote LHG >>originally in C, tested it in C, and then recoded the critical sections in >>assembly. When I finally get a decent interface on the !@&*$@! thing you can >>all see how well this method works. >Want to elaborate a little? What's LHG? Some variant of LHA? First, what's LHA? LHG is Lord High Giffer, Todd Whitesel's (alleged!) GIF program that blows the socks off of both SHRConvert [big deal, probably a GIF converter fully in C would be faster than SHRConvert!] -and- Gif3200 (or whatever Jonah Stitch's program is called). I'm just kidding about the "alleged" part.. I just keep harping at Todd, since I believe he originally said he'd release it a loooong time ago, and I'm itchin' for some new GS programs, even if it's only a GIF viewer I'll use once in a blue moon. Also, I spoke to Jason Harper a week or two ago and he said he didn't care that SHRConvert was slow as molasses and didn't want to get into the speed war... DAMN! I thought I could kinda 'rev him up' to want to make a converter faster than Jonah or Todd.. Kind of a hacker war... (analogous to the races to crack a new ware? Not that there have been any new warezzz to crack in the GS world for a long time) -- /unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu Apple IIGS Forever! ULTIMA VI GS -mail me. CDs-mail me\ \ McIntosh Junior: The Power to Crush the Other Kids. /
shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) (03/28/91)
In article <13814@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: > First, what's LHA? LHARC... current version seems to be v2.10 or v2.11, and probably the most efficient packer out there. There has been a big deal made on comp.sources.unix lately about Y and AP coding (yabba and all-prefixes, although AP is patented by James Storer), but they aren't as efficient as they would be if they had a Huffman or Shannon-Fano front end. andy -- Andy Nicholas GEnie & America-Online: shrinkit Apple Computer, Inc. CompuServe: 70771,2615 Apple IIGS System Software InterNET: shrinkit@apple.com I'm doing this on my own time, so I don't speak for Apple.
declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) (03/31/91)
In article <13814@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: >Kind of a hacker war... (analogous to the races to crack a new ware? Not that >there have been any new warezzz to crack in the GS world for a long time) Wow... A gnu wares kid on comp.sys.apple2. In fact, the very same person who refused to help someone since he _might_ have had a pirated copy of ProTERM. Indeed. -Declan