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- From: shacha1@tau.ac.il (SHEMESH SHACHAR)
- Subject: Re: PowerPacker file system?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.150035.17153@aristo.tau.ac.il>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:00:35 GMT
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- TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu wrote:
- : I've been using the PD version of powerpacker and its very nice. I was
- : wondering why no one has come up with a filesystem that would automatically
- : crunch/decrunch when a file was saved/loaded to it? (or has someone?)
- Try XFH file system (in an FTP site neer you), it uses the XPK
- external packing routines, and one of the things it supports is
- powerpacker. I don't know if it allows to auto-crunch for power packer
- (it is implemented differently from the rest of the algorythems), but
- it should be able to unpack alright.
- : That would eliminate the problem of programs having to be PowerPacker
- : aware. I don't have the slightest idea about programming filesystems
- : or even where to start looking or I would at least try the decoding
- : half myself. Does the RKM devices manual have that kind of info or
- : would I need the hardware manual (I only have the libraries and autodocs)?
- : Just a though... has anyone tried this?
- : Cya
- : +L8R+ +Every time I try to pick it up its like
- : HonuS internet: TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu|falling sands, as fast as I pick it up it
- : +---+ bitnet: TEW105@psuvm |runs away through my clutching hands...
- : Disclaimer: +-Look Ma, only 5 lines--+ -The Cure
- : The big wigs at PSU wish they could come up with opinions as good as mine!
-
- --
- "Is it just me or has the world always been like that and I've been to
- wraped up in myself to notice?" [Arthur Dent, THHGTTG]
- Shachar Shemesh (TheSun on IRC) shacha1@ccsg.tau.ac.il
- Any and all opinions voiced herein are my own, and do not reflect on
- the opinions of the Commodore computer company in particular or the
- sane world in general. In fact I have nothing at all to do with
- either.
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