why not trying PalmDoc compression (for text) it achieves a ratio of 40%
approx. and there's strictly no memory overhead (as it is a "pragmatic"
algorithm).
Armel
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From: Aaron Ardiri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2001 10:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Compression of records
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> Hi everyone
>
> I have an application with around 1,000 text records of around 1-2k each.
>
> I'd like to compress the records, but am a bit uncertain about how to go
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Mike van der Merwe wrote:
> about it. If I compress each record individually wouldn't the
> header+compressed data be bigger than the original data?
>
> What algorithms are appropriate for compressing records and are there any
> links that might be useful to me?
it all depe
Hi everyone
I have an application with around 1,000 text records of around 1-2k each.
I'd like to compress the records, but am a bit uncertain about how to go
about it. If I compress each record individually wouldn't the
header+compressed data be bigger than the original data?
What algorithms a
