home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!lux!cscmd
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Is LHA source in Pascal?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.094632.27310@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- From: cscmd@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis)
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:46:32 GMT
- Sender: news@lugb.latrobe.edu.au (USENET News System)
- References: <1992Dec16.182311.45706@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Organization: La Trobe University
- Lines: 18
-
- In article <1992Dec16.182311.45706@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >Hello all,
- >
- >I am writing a recipe database system in Turbo Pascal for Windows
- >(I'm waiting for the OS/2 version). I was thinking of compressing
- >the recipes (I have several thousand). I thought of a few ways
- >of doing this in my head, but alas, I am no compression expert.
-
- And hello to you too!
-
- For this sort of job, may I recommend Duncan J. Murdoch's enhanced
- stream package (called either STREAM13.ZIP or STREAMS13.ZIP). One of
- the streams does transparent LZH compression and decompression, which
- sounds JUST like what you need.
-
- Good luck!
-
- Mitch.
-