Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 21:43:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
Sender: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
To: Tim Bird <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
Cc: OpenDOS <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist: HTML format docs
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one thing that might be tried is to have an archive file
compressed with zip with the -9 option.  This file might have a .zis
extension.  When decompression happens, initially the contents are decompressed
and recompressed into a .zif file which is identical to the .zis file
with this exception, when a .zif file is made it's made with a
zip -1 compression option.
The reader only reads .zif files, and if the reader is closed,
it recreates the .zis file and deletes the .zif file.
If multitasking can be used to manage creation and deletion of files that might further
speed up performance.
One technique I remember was used in t-maker and secretry.com
two cp/m programs originally was the chain directive.
#chain file2.zis
might be placed in a strategic place in file1.zis.
Doing this though likely would take up more space than having only
a single file with the whole html document with supporting
multimedia stuff in it.
I wouldn't want to implement that chain directive unless the whole system could 
chain if found but exit gracefuly if not.

jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>