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lhwarp121.lzh 33792 Approx time (min): 35 at 300 baud, 9 at 1200 baud
Contributed by: svigna Date: Wed Jan 31 03:14:20 1990
LHWARP 1.21
6th January, 1990
A disk tracker for the Amiga
Written by Jonathan Forbes
(Pronounced L-H-WARP)
Lhwarp is a program which will read tracks directly from your floppy disk,
compress them, and output them to a file. The advantages of using Lhwarp
are:
- The entire disk structure, including the boot block, is preserved.
- Lhwarp will always produce a smaller output file than ARC, ZOO or WARP.
(note: this is only true when the default compression algorithm is used)
- Lhwarp will only archive sectors which contain data, by using the disk's
bitmap (however, Lhwarp will gladly compress every single sector on the
disk, if you wish.)
- Using Lhwarp is much less hassle than archiving each and every file
individually.
- The bootblock of any disk being either read or written is displayed, so
that bootblock viruses can easily be found.
Lhwarp will produce files much smaller than those produced by Warp, due to
the fact that Lhwarp uses a more efficient compression algorithm (Adaptive
Huffman Encoding); the same algorithm used in LHARC. Typically, an Lhwarp
file will be 80% of the size of an equivalent Warp file, resulting in quite
reasonable hard drive space savings.
In addition, Lhwarp will only archive sectors which contain data; deleted
information is not archived (unless you explicity request this to be done.)
When compressing or decompressing data, sectors which contain data are
marked with a '.' character, while sectors which do not contain data are
marked with a '_' character. If the -m option is specified, all sectors
will be marked with '.' automatically.
Lhwarp's main (and perhaps only) disadvantage is that compression time is
very large; it can take from 20 to 25 minutes to compress an entire disk (80
tracks.) There is not too much which can be done about this; you have to pay
a price for the extra power.
For those who simply must have a faster compression rate, Lhwarp provides
two additional compression algorithms; squeezing and vaporising (the latter
is the 14 bit version of UNIX Compress.) Both are much faster than the LHARC
Adaptive Huffman Encoding algorithm (called "freezing.") However, neither of
them comes close to the compression ratio of freezing.
Keywords: $binary compression lharc lhzuf tracker utility warp
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