Re: Base85 for DOS

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:32:02 +0700
JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> wrote:

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:34:56 +0100, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:52:28 +0100
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
 

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:44:42 +0100
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
 

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:10:08 +0100
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
[was 203]
 
Hardcoded some constants, and other savings - now 191 bytes:

[snip]
 
BTW, was there a tool specifically for converting DEBUG's dump to binary? Or
converting it to a series of DEBUG's Edit command?

Of course! I published a dump (:-) of it here a while back.
I called it
xxd-r.com
in a nod to the full unix 'xxd' utility.

See other post

PS all this time I was worried about eof/ partial reads - simpler to
append the padding and do a std loop.

-e -d with both z (tested for trailing zeros) and y compress,  201 bytes

->          d 100 lc9
1638:0100 B4 3F B9 C8-6E BA C3 02-CD 21 91 E3-F9 89 D6 89  .?..n....!......
1638:0110 D7 01 CF B3-55 80 3E 83-00 64 74 57-31 C0 AB AB  ....U.>..dtW1...
1638:0120 BF 75 75 57-AD 86 E0 95-AD 86 E0 89-C2 09 E8 75  .uuW...........u
1638:0130 0A 80 F9 04-72 05 B0 7A-AA EB 25 3D-20 20 75 04  ....r..z..%=  u.
1638:0140 B0 79 EB F4-51 B9 04 00-52 31 D2 95-F7 F3 95 58  .y..Q...R1.....X
1638:0150 F7 F3 92 50-E2 F2 52 B1-05 58 04 21-AA E2 FA 59  ...P..R..X.!...Y
1638:0160 83 E9 04 77-BF 5A B3 01-01 F9 29 D1-B4 40 CD 21  ...w.Z....)..@.!
1638:0170 4B EB 8D B8-75 75 AB AB-AA 97 57 80-3C 7A 75 09  K...uu....W.<zu.
1638:0180 31 C0 AB AB-46 E2 F4 E3-DC 80 3C 79-75 0A B8 20  1...F.....<yu..
1638:0190 20 AB AB 46-E2 E5 E3 CD-51 31 D2 31-ED B9 05 00   ..F....Q1.1....
1638:01A0 AC 2C 21 72-12 98 50 52-95 F7 E3 95-58 F7 E3 01  .,!r..PR....X...
1638:01B0 D5 5A 01 C2-83 D5 00 E2-E7 95 86 E0-AB 92 86 E0  .Z..............
1638:01C0 AB-59 83 E9 05-77 B4 EB 9C                       .Y...w...
->          q 

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