Re: Zip V8 (Re-releasing Zip)


Wed, 15 Nov 1995 01:27:06 -0500

jholder@nmsu.edu (John Holder) writes:
> > When I logged on today, I planned to post, "hey, to all the Zip
> > maintainers reading this, let's combine our source trees".
> > Excellent idea.
>
> I agree. I would be happy for JZIP to join the bandwagon - I think there
> is still room for differing user interface modules, for the "look and feel"
> thing, but the rest of the core code should be the same. The only problem
> I forsee is that the two zip_random functions out there are not interchangeabl\
> e.
> One works great on DOS (and probably other platforms) and the other works
> great on UNIX, but interchanging them is not possible because they fail to
> be random enough when switched... Any volunteers to write an all-working
> zip_random, if it is possible?

Are you talking about the conflict between rand() and random()? I'd
leave this in osdepend.c. On the Mac I use something else entirely.

I think I'm going to do some diff-ing and figure out how much I had to
modify the ZIP source to add the fancy interfaces of MaxZip and XZip.
It's been a long time, but I think the biggest change was ignoring
ZIP's word-wrapping algorithm.

> I'm about to release the next JZIP -
> It also supports 1/10th second timing intervals,

Just making sure -- it also calls the timing callback with zero
arguments, right?

--Z

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