In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> And for Linux (Gnome and KDE) you are relying on 3rd party packages
> that as far as I have found doesn't come standard with any Linux
> distro I tried.
Fedora had both in YUM iirc, though kchmviewer was flaky. But I'm not
relying on them, they ar
At 16:00 28/10/2008, you wrote:
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, there are some ones. There is the PAQ family that are the
best now. Of
> course they are research compressors mostly written in C++ but they exist.
> There is a freepascal/lazaru
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, there are some ones. There is the PAQ family that are the best now. Of
> course they are research compressors mostly written in C++ but they exist.
> There is a freepascal/lazarus app that implements a GUI for this
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> CHM has all that, and working code is in the tree now, so why bother? The
> indexes and toc are several MB each too. (for CHM, they are XML, though you
> could cook something up binary that is tighter. OTOH it will
Graeme Geldenhuys escreveu:
I used Total Command 6.55 with the 7-zip plugin v0.4.6. Total
Commander and the 7-zip plugin is written in Object Pascal (delphi).
No dependencies on external libraries. I ran Total Commander under
Linux by the way.
For the latest version of the 7-zip plugin wi
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Jonas Maebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You do have to decompress everything in the archive coming before it (but
> nothing forces you, or TC, to store the decompressed but undesired data to
> disk, obviously).
That would normally make sense and how I understand
At 11:38 28/10/2008, you wrote:
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In fact deflate/zip is 18-19 years old and there are lot of better
> compression algorithm, like LZX. I think there is one implemented in Pascal
> (ABC if memory don't fails).
I'm stil
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> So far we are looking at the TZipFile component, but with zlib for a
> start (and 7zip later) compression. Help file will be similar to
> OpenOffice or CHM help. A compressed file with HTML and image content
> and some index and toc files.
CHM has
On 28 Oct 2008, at 14:55, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
nd like I said, 7zip allows a single file to be unpacked from a solid
archive. No need to unpack everything. I have verified that with Total
Commander (TC) and the 7-zip plugin, otherwise 7-zip will not be an
option for a help system. With TC
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> rtl with 7zip = 762KB
>> fc with 7zip = 117KB
>
> But that is not a help system. It is a solid archive. If I have to depack
> first it lasts a minute and contains 150MB on disk (first column)
And like I said, 7zip
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> rtl with 7zip = 762KB
>> fc with 7zip = 117KB
>
> But that is not a help system. It is a solid archive. If I have to depack
> first it lasts a minute and contains 150MB on disk (first column)
I archived the RTL an
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> > help packagesize on disk(k) real size(k) chm(k)
> > rtl38816 22096 1865
> > lcl107404 72499 5227
> > fcl85485148445
> >
> I used Total Command 6.55 with the 7-zip plugin v0.4.6. Total
> Commander and the 7-zip plugin is written in Object Pascal (delphi).
> No dependencies on external libraries. I ran Total Commander under
> Linux by the way.
For the latest version of the 7-zip plugin with source code.
http://www.t
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Vincent Snijders
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> And at the same time, that is its weak point for packing a large number of
> similar documents, like the LCL documentation. It only compresses one
> document at a time, so it cannot use the information of previous doc
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> html html
> help packagesize on disk(k) real size(k) chm(k)
> rtl38816 22096 1865
> lcl107404 72499 5227
> fcl
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> > In fact deflate/zip is 18-19 years old and there are lot of better
> > compression algorithm, like LZX. I think there is one implemented in Pascal
> > (ABC if memory don't fails).
>
> I'm still trying to find a compression algorithm that beats w
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
The important thing for TZipFile component is that the archive format
must compresses every file separately. Otherwise you can't extract a
specific file without unpacking everything first.
And at the same time, that is its weak point for packing a large number of sim
In our previous episode, Eduardo Morras said:
> >entirely before use, contrary to either zip (in theory you could open the
> >zip and extract only the one file) and chm (which has several indexes
> >internally too, the unpacked chm is possibly larger than the html due to
> >this)
>
> Don't know wh
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In fact deflate/zip is 18-19 years old and there are lot of better
> compression algorithm, like LZX. I think there is one implemented in Pascal
> (ABC if memory don't fails).
I'm still trying to find a compression alg
At 07:01 28/10/2008, you wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Don't know what's your question (perhaps you posted on wrong list) but chm
> uses LZX compression algorithm internally.
I was about to mention that as well. :-)
I have always had the
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Don't know what's your question (perhaps you posted on wrong list) but chm
> uses LZX compression algorithm internally.
I was about to mention that as well. :-)
I have always had the idea of using the HTML help in a z
At 15:19 27/10/2008, you wrote:
This morning I did a bit research after the help files, I hope it sheds some
light on the WHY for the recent CHM efforts:
html html
help packagesize on disk(k) real size(k) chm(k)
rtl38816 22096 1
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