RE: using DLITE compression program w/ Dpressed files !

Davide Rossi (rossi@CS.UniBO.IT)
Wed, 6 Nov 1996 02:26:25 +0100 (MET)

On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Hitesh Brahmbhatt wrote:

>
> > From owner-ogo@lifelike.com Tue Nov 5 15:05:02 1996
> > Date: Tue, 5 Nov 96 20:53:48 UT
> > From: "Marc " <Marc_3@msn.com>
> > To: ogo@lifelike.com
> > Subject: RE: using DLITE compression program w/ Dpressed files !
> > Sender: owner-ogo@lifelike.com
> > Content-Length: 1466
> >
> > Hitesh,
> > I've experienced the same thing using dlite. I might be wrong about this, but
> > I believe that the help files and book files are already being compressed by
> > Geos, using the built-in PKWARE compression library. I suspect this is the
> > source of the incompatibility with dlite.
> > Marc
>
> I think you are right Marc, but in that case I believe GEOS must have done
> a good job already. I was quite puzzled by this.
>
There _should_ not be a trouble with double compression: it might be slow
(you need to decompress data two times) but should work anyway.
Anyway: as far as I've seen there are not "compressed" help files around.
I use diet for my help files and they work just right.

Ciao,
Davide.