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- CP.EXE compresses or decompresses individual files:
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- CP c <infile> <outfile> compresses the <infile>, writing out <outfile>
- CP d <infile> <outfile> uncompresses <infile>, writing out <outfile>
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- CPTEST tests the various forms of reading and writing to files, including
- all the get, getline, write, put, and overloaded functions. Use this
- utility to validate any changes that you make to the stream classes.
- CPTEST generates two files, TEST.OUT and UNCOMP: the compressed data and
- the raw data, respectively.
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- Several functions which are meaningless in a compressed file (such as
- file positioning, putting back data, etc) have been defined in these
- classes but are "do nothing" functions to prevent the compressed data
- from being corrupted.
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- The compression algorithm comes from The C Users Journal, October 1992,
- article written by Ed Ross.
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- Marc-Thomas Clifton
- CompuServe address: 71754,1204
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