Title: COMPRESS Author: David Radford Version: 1.26 Title From: Documentation Author From: Documentation Version From: Documentation Supplier: David Radford Date: 13/04/96 Keywords: Shareware: No Machine: Archimedes Operating system: RISCOS Memory requirements: Peripherals needed: Other s/ware needed: Directory: micros/arch/riscos/b/b074 Date mounted/updated: 19/04/96 File names: compress.arc Unarchived files: 14 Unarchived size: 141 kbytes Omissions: See also: COMPUTILS (e086), PLAYER (e087) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acquiring the package: Download the archive file(s) and extract using SparkPlug 2 (see the "tools_help" file in arch/riscos/tools for further info). Description: Compress will compress (and subsequently decompress) Armadeus format samples. It is much more efficient at this than general purpose compressors such as !SparkFS or !Squash. Particularly useful if you have large collections of samples, or are running a BBS or FTP site, or anywhere else that you want to keep storage requirements or transmission times to a minimum. A background player (!Player) is available to play squashed samples directly from disc without having to decompress them first. Also, tools (!CompUtils) are available for you to graft compressed sample support into your own programs.