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Coming SOON to a Dicottery near you!
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Dicottery v0.02 © Phil Norman, Mon 22nd July 1996
Well, there are a lot of things I'd like to do to Dicottery, and here are
the ideas which are most probably going to be implemented. If you have
any more ideas for Dicottery, please mail me. My address is in the !Help
file.
1 : TRUE multitasking compression.
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Almost all compression systems multitask, but NONE of them (AFAIK) multitask
PERFECTLY. When I say TRUE multitasking, that means the computer doesn't
freeze up when the compressor is tackling a large file. At the moment, the
only multitasking offered by the likes of Dicottery, SparkFS and ArcFS is
simply polling in between files.
So what I intend to do with Dicottery is to make it compress large files
a bit at a time, so whatever size of file it's handling, your desktop will
always run smoothely.
2 : Modular Dicottery.
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At the moment, !Dicottery is the only thing that can create Dicottery
archives. This is a bit of a problem, really. I'd like to be able to
use Dicottery as a *command, which was implemented in the old BASIC version,
but this involves 2 versions that have to be updated every time. And
that annoys me.
Therefore, I'm going to ask Pineapple VERY nicely for a SWI chunk, and I'm
going to rewrite Dicottery as a relocatable module. Then I'd simply have
a small wimp front-end for Dicottery.
The module (if it is written) will provide a *Dicottery command to do a
quick Dicotterize on something, and also a set of SWIs that will be FULLY
documented, and can be used by ANYONE. Basically, that means that any
application can provide Dicottery compression, and people can even write
their own front-ends for it if they don't like mine :-).
3 : Specialist DSEA creator.
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Dicottery is an obvious choice when it comes to installing software on hard
disc. However, the current decompression front-end (which is optimised for
small size) is not the prettiest, and a more aesthetically pleasing option
would be more appropriate for installation purposes. Also some other minor
features would be applicable here. However, such a specialist DSEA creator
wouldn't have the normal Dicottery freeware, free-use licence, and would
be more suited to professional companies wishing to distribute their
software in a highly compressed, and prettily-packaged form.
4 : DicotFS.
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How about running applications from within a DSEA? Don't hold your breath,
but it's certainly on the cards.