[Coco] (Simple?) Binary File Compression

[bear at bears.org]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, CoCo Mongrel wrote:

> Any ideas?

Run-Length Encoding is a pretty easy to implement scheme that I've used 
(in C code):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding

I can't imagine it being difficult to implement in assembler for the 6809. 
I would be surprised if someone didn't have some code for it laying around 
-- it's a very common technique.

Peace,
Gary

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