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From: Javier Ventoso <javier0003@mundivia.es>
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Subject: Re: Compressing TIMs...
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:52:08 +0200
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Toby Sargeant wrote: 
> Maybe it's an idea to port zlib to the playstation. it does adaptive
> huffman encoding and lzw compression. the source is freely available,
> and it's the same algorithm that gzip and pkzip use. it'd save you
> a lot of work, in the long run.
> 
> Toby.

I can't use Huffman/LZW 'standard' method, it needs a lot of PSX memory,
I 
must code some optimizations and rebuild it a lot.

Javi.