From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: realloc causing fault
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:40:48 -0000, "Greg Holdridge"
<greg AT holdridge7 DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>And besides, I need to allocate in array format because strings
>are accessed by code.  Otherwise access would be very slow, if for
>example I used the binary tree structure I use for compression.

If you need compression in a DJGPP program, there's always zlib.
  http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/

>How else could this be achieved without pre-allocation the stringtable
>space (I suppose if I put the numstrings in the compressed file header?
>LZW produces the same number of strings both ways I guess)

LZW compression is encumbered under United States Patent 4,558,302 and
foreign counterparts, assigned to Unisys Corporation.  Use of LZW
compression is strongly deprecated for this reason.
  http://burnallgifs.org/

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