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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.rst | |
| parent | 4f2347c1d8015a092f990db6fa3b53ffbb5b85fd (diff) | |
| download | alftools-7c5d9ba68d782a52ef58e4f2597e27bd7c52cdee.tar.gz | |
alf: Handle 0-byte input files.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/alf.rst b/src/alf.rst index 4bf2c6c..4d48afc 100644 --- a/src/alf.rst +++ b/src/alf.rst @@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ Atari **LZ.COM** aka **ALF.COM**, with the following differences: overwrites (making a backup) by default, and can append with the **-a** option. +- **LZ.COM** doesn't handle 0-byte (empty) files correctly, but **alf** + does. Not that this is very useful. + - Turning the screen off for speed makes no sense on modern operating systems, so there's no option for that. @@ -164,9 +167,6 @@ a pathological case. A real Atari would take hours or even days to compress/decompress such files, and you'd have to have a hard disk and a DOS capable of handling multi-megabyte files... -It's also impossible to compress empty (0-byte) files. **alf** will -skip them, if any are found. - Performance ----------- |