To: editor AT juno DOT com
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
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From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 97 01:53:26 +0300
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
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nuqneH,

> To: zager AT post DOT comstar DOT ru
> Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
> From: editor AT juno DOT com (Bruce Morgen)
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 11:24:02 EST
[dd]
> >> >
> >> [dd]
> >>
> >> And that's not true. There is *NO* InfoZIP's zip (or even unzip) for
> >8-bit
> >> platforms and even for CP/M-86.
> >Hm, then I was a happy Z80 user ;) it already run on my Sinclar !
> >And as I remember it was exactly under CP/M.
> >
> There was a *very* slow unzipper
> for CP/M, but the current
> compression scheme (inflate/deflate)
> couldn't be implemented in a 64K
> memory space without a fancy and
> slow (especially on 8-bit hardware)
> disk swapping algorithm.

I have one.. and it is not implemented there at all - the program handles old
zip archives only.

>  Unzip for
> CP/M-80 is not practical,

I'd like to get one even if it is slow..

> CP/M-86
> should be no particular problem for
> somebody who actually cares to port
> it.
>

No one seems to care... :(

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