Check old posts by Matthias Paul about DR-FONTS.
The good news (for me ;-)) is that no matter if you use DR-FONTS or any other "compression" format (DR-FONTS does not compress IIRC), MODE needs to create a memory image of the CPI file to be sent to DISPLAY. So it isn't a big deal if MODE just reads CPI files from inside ZIPs...
Aitor
the CPI files are "huge" and compress very well. upt to Eric to select: 1) No compression/decompression 2) Gzip decompression support 3) Minizip decompression support
advantage of 3) over 2) is less overhead (not each file will have gzip header then), and all CPI files can be kept together in a single 60KB file.
right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is nearly half the disk! (and makes creating 720KB more difficult).
Don't know how HTMLHELP does it, but in MODE's case it would be decompression into RAM, and absolutely no decompression to disk.
Bernd
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