Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:50:19 12/13/02
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On December 13, 2002 at 14:50:30, Dann Corbit wrote: >What is different? Nothing except that the files > 2.0 gigs are broken into two pieces. Old files were not that big so it wasn't an issue. But there are some now that are huge. >A different compression scheme? no. >A different encoding scheme? no. >Why the change? the average user can't address files > 2.0 gigabytes on all operating systems. >Has the interface changed? Yes. There is a new egtb.cpp source file. >What changes will be needed from old code to new code? just a new egtb.cpp code is it. >Have the rules for usage changed? no, Other than you better have a lot of disk space, and a lot of RAM for the decompression indices. IE perhaps 300-400mb of ram for the current set of 200+ gigs of files. And when I say 300-400mb, I mean RAM dedicated to the decompression indices, not including the program, hash tables, cache, etc...
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