compress memory requirements

[John Gayman]

In article <272 at mancol.UUCP>, samperi at mancol.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
> Roughly what are the memory requirements of compress? I recently applied
> John Rupley's patches for compress 4.0 so that it works with Microport
> SystemV/286, and it works fine with files that are no larger than about
> 250K, but it dumps core when I try to compress larger files.

    Are you using 16-bit compress or 12 bit ?  This may not be totally
relavent but I received a patch that I applied to compress and it lets
me do full 16-bit compress/decompress on my Microport system. Its used
mainly with News feeds but I routinely compress files in the 1 MB size
region. Presently I compressed up my News2.11B sources and the "compressed"
file size is around 500K. Me and a freind also swap a lot of DOS software
via UUCP and have compressed files with a size of 1.2MB. If your interested,
I can send you the 16-bit compress patch. Im currently running with
3MB of main memory with 1960K available after boot.


					John




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