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From: "Charles Nicholson" <chnicholson@vassar.edu>
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Subject: Upcoming Release
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:58:47 -0500
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Woohoo!  Yes.  It's my first Yaroze release.  Actually, it's a bunch of
utilities that solves the file management silliness.

CLIB v1.0 features:
    Compression:  Huffman trees that get 30-40% on average sized .tims
    Directory Structure:  A one-level deep directory structure is supported
(i.e your file can have subdirectories in which compressed data files are
stored- just like a hard drive).  Plus, you can flag entire directories for
compression or not (wouldn't want to waste mem by compressing .tmds that are
ALWAYS in use)
    Neat OS-like access functions:  findfirst,findnext, etc.  All the
goodies.
    Speed:  Huffman decompress is pretty fast, and the API has virtually NO
footprint...

ok so it's not all that.  but at least it's got the directory structure...

one file can look like this:

    MYGAME.LIB
        \TIM
            1.tim
            2.tim
            3.tim
        \TMD
            a.tmd
            b.tmd
            c.tmd
        \MAPS
            woop.map
            yeep.map
            ack.map
etc.

It's for dos32 and as of now does NOT run in a dos box for win9x.  Memory
leaks and such.  I'm working on it.  All apps are DOS4GW, which will be
included when i put it online.  I'm releasing all source, too, but it's
gonna be sloppy.

Anyway, when it goes up i'll post an ftp site.  Just letting everyone know.
:)

-charles