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$compress and $decompress - algorithm? #45031 30/08/03 04:30 AM
Q Quietust
Quietust Q	mIRC 6.1 added two new identifiers - $compress() and $decompress(), but not many details were given. What compression algorithm is used for these? LZW (unlikely, patented by Unisys)? BZIP2 (unlikely, as it prefers really large files)? Deflate (i.e. zlib)?

Re: $compress and $decompress - algorithm? #45032 30/08/03 07:33 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,125 Q qwerty Hoopy frood
qwerty Hoopy frood Q Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,125	Seeing that the "Acknowledgements" page doesn't mention any other lib than zlib, I would assume zlib is used for $compress() too.

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