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| author | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-11-26 06:23:59 -0500 |
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| committer | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-11-26 06:23:59 -0500 |
| commit | 829fd938876f1bbad56bfa792ab8a0a0a18b8fc6 (patch) | |
| tree | 28710cf29bd2cadd12dc58b74935be65022a5fae /src/alf.1 | |
| parent | fd8a5383e0c92aafe937038d299bb2ae62ee3239 (diff) | |
| download | unalf-829fd938876f1bbad56bfa792ab8a0a0a18b8fc6.tar.gz | |
Document 16MB limit in alf man page.
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@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@ Note that \fBalf\fP is a complete reverse\-engineered rewrite in C, \fInot\fP a port of the original 6502 code as \fBunalf\fP is. It\(aqs still being tested, and may still contain bugs. .sp +\fBalf\fP (and \fBLZ.COM\fP) have a 16MB file size limit. \fBuanlf\fP +actually can\(aqt handle files above about 15MB, if you compress one with +\fBalf\fP\&. Real Atari 8\-bit files are never this large anyway, so it\(aqs +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 Performance is \fIhorrible\fP\&. This shouldn\(aqt be a real problem on modern multi\-GHz CPU, especially since most Atari 8\-bit files are small (usually under 64KB). Interestingly, it\(aqs not O(n^2), it scales |