On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Nick Humphries wrote: > From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Personally I don't see anything wrong with the currect tactic of saving > >.dsk images and gzipping them. > > PCs don't have gzip by default. What's wrong with writing a custom compression > routine which is portable between the various platforms?
PCs don't have sim-coupe by default. Your point? I'd say you'd be hard pressed to find a PC owner who couldn't decode - or encode, for that matter - a .gz file. There's little point to reinventing the wheel, and you'd need to work quite hard to make your customized compression algorithm work better than gzip anyway. Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- My other -- http://mnemotech.ucam.org -- .sig is a -- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge -- PDF file --
