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LPAQ6 for DOS (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 06.11.2007, 07:14

Since the standard distribution of LPAQ only comes w/ Win32 binaries and C++ source, I've compiled it myself for DOS. LPAQ is a "lite PAQ" compressor (not archiver) that uses much less memory (minimum 9 MB) and time than the standard PAQ compressors/archivers. (Older versions, e.g. LPAQ1v2 only needed 6 MB min. but compressed slightly worse.)

Website: http://www.cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/#lpaq

Download: http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/lpaq6dos.zip (190k)

Changes: "includes a E8E9 filter for better compression of x86 executables."

This download includes three DOS .EXEs for various purposes (DJGPP "fast", OpenWatcom: HX "dual", D3X "tiny") plus the original .ZIP package (two Win32 .EXEs, GPL'd .CPP source, and README.TXT). Feel free to recompile at will, benchmark, whatever, and post your results here.

P.S. Thanks to Steve for his interest.

Complete thread:

• LPAQ6 for DOS - Rugxulo, 06.11.2007, 07:14 (Announce)
  • LPAQ6 for DOS - Steve, 06.11.2007, 18:41