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| author | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-11-29 05:52:13 -0500 |
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| committer | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-11-29 05:52:13 -0500 |
| commit | 7c5d9ba68d782a52ef58e4f2597e27bd7c52cdee (patch) | |
| tree | 4a8641331a1c0b3502d0fb5b53a856dc2b99f55b /src/alf.1 | |
| parent | 4f2347c1d8015a092f990db6fa3b53ffbb5b85fd (diff) | |
| download | alftools-7c5d9ba68d782a52ef58e4f2597e27bd7c52cdee.tar.gz | |
alf: Handle 0-byte input files.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/alf.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/alf.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ must be given as command\-line arguments. overwrites (making a backup) by default, and can append with the \fB\-a\fP option. .IP \(bu 2 +\fBLZ.COM\fP doesn\(aqt handle 0\-byte (empty) files correctly, but \fBalf\fP +does. Not that this is very useful. +.IP \(bu 2 Turning the screen off for speed makes no sense on modern operating systems, so there\(aqs no option for that. .UNINDENT @@ -190,9 +193,6 @@ actually can\(aqt handle files above about 15MB, if you compress one with a pathological case. A real Atari would take hours or even days to compress/decompress such files, and you\(aqd have to have a hard disk and a DOS capable of handling multi\-megabyte files... -.sp -It\(aqs also impossible to compress empty (0\-byte) files. \fBalf\fP will -skip them, if any are found. .SS Performance .sp Performance is \fIhorrible\fP\&. This shouldn\(aqt be a real problem on |