From 829fd938876f1bbad56bfa792ab8a0a0a18b8fc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "B. Watson" Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:23:59 -0500 Subject: Document 16MB limit in alf man page. --- src/alf.1 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/alf.1') diff --git a/src/alf.1 b/src/alf.1 index a2185bb..cb735b7 100644 --- a/src/alf.1 +++ b/src/alf.1 @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3