dpi@loft386.uucp (Doug Ingraham) (10/29/90)
In article <917@iiasa.UUCP>, wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul) writes: > In article <501@tndsyd.oz> berny@tndsyd.oz (Berny Goodheart) writes: > )The 286 is only capable of compressing to 12 BITS. Most > )32 bit machines compress files to 16 bits. If the files you are trying > )to de-compress where originally compressed on a 32 bit machine, ... > > Apart from the fact that I have used a 16-bit uncompress on a 286 > several years ago, the reply above does not seem to have anything to > do with the question it purports to answer. What is going on? > There is an option in compress to allow the big array to be broken into 64k chunks that will fit on a xenix box. I think these patches are ifdef XENIX although it has been a couple of years since I looked at it. Look at the sources for a couple of minutes and you will see what I mean. I have never used compress in this way, so I don't know if it really works, but I saw nothing that would prevent it from working on any 286 system that allowed large model data segments. -- Doug Ingraham (SysAdmin) Lofty Pursuits (Public Access for Rapid City SD USA) uunet!loft386!dpi