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- The SIXPACK program implements a faithful port from C of a unique
- compression algorithm submitted to the DR DOBBS compression contest
- a few years back by Philip G. Gage.
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- The algorithm is implemented in the context of a stand-alone file
- compression utility, which can be used to compress/decompress files
- one at a time.
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-
- NOTE: There is a statement in sixpack:
-
- CONST
- MaxDistance : Integer = CopyMax[PRED(COPYRANGES)];
-
- which causes the TP7 compiler to give the error "cannot evaluate
- this expression". I have no idea why, but so long as you don't
- change anything else, you can hard code the value to be:
-
- CONST
- MaxDistance : integer = 21839;
-
- TP6 does not have this problem.
-
-
- Douglas P. Webb
- dwebb@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
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