From 7c5d9ba68d782a52ef58e4f2597e27bd7c52cdee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "B. Watson" Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 05:52:13 -0500 Subject: alf: Handle 0-byte input files. --- src/alf.1 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/alf.1') diff --git a/src/alf.1 b/src/alf.1 index e87b333..569e980 100644 --- a/src/alf.1 +++ b/src/alf.1 @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3