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Article #5865Re: Compression device
From: Phil Kernick
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 01:30
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 01:30
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In article <291@geocub.greco-prog.fr> anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Franklin Anthes) writes: - -I'd really like to find an amiga device (comp:?) which would automatically -compress/decompress any files stored on it. I don't think such a device would -be able to handle direct access ( it could probably fake it though ). But -it still would be a really usefull tool. Isn't this basically how an RLL hard-drive controller on an I*M works? As I understand it, it run-length encodes the data to be put on the hard drive before storing it, and decodes it when reading it off. This would mean slightly slower access times, but an increase in disk capacity of about 50%. Phil. -- Phil Kernick EMail: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au Departmental Engineer Phone: +618 228 5914 Dept. of Psychology Fax: +618 224 0464 University of Adelaide Mail: GPO Box 498 Adelaide SA 5001
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!adam.adelaide.edu.au!phil From: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Compression device Message-ID: <phil.656040612@adam.adelaide.edu.au> Date: 16 Oct 90 01:30:12 GMT References: <291@geocub.greco-prog.fr> <1990Oct15.120046.15007@ericsson.se> Sender: news@ucs.adelaide.edu.au Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: adam.adelaide.edu.au