[fpc-pascal] helpsystem, some numbers

[Eduardo Morras]

At 07:01 28/10/2008, you wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Eduardo Morras <emorras at xroff.net> wrote:
> >
> > Don't know what's your question (perhaps you posted on wrong list) but chm
> > uses LZX compression algorithm internally.
>
>I was about to mention that as well.  :-)
>
>I have always had the idea of using the HTML help in a zip file and
>access the data directly from it. For use with Lazarus IDE and for my
>own personal projects.  TZipFile component created by Darius can do
>this and allows you to access files in a zip archive as if you are
>accessing then from a normal hard drive. Only compression still needs
>to be implement, but that shouldn't be to hard.

In fact deflate/zip is 18-19 years old and there are lot of better 
compression algorithm, like LZX. I think there is one implemented in 
Pascal (ABC if memory don't fails).

>Regards,
>   - Graeme -
>
>
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