Re: Diet Compression Program

Jan Sedlak (Jan.Sedlak@pedf.cuni.cz)
Wed, 14 Aug 1996 21:29:05 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Marcus Groeber:
> > I have been trying to DIET the whole PC harddisk. Windows and GEOS write
> > and read to the file sectors and clusters - when these are compressed the
> > system hangs up. (GEOS makes some "cluster not found" error).

As far as I know:
DIET compresses on DOS level. Not BIOS level (INT 13). That is why it will
not work under GEOS/Windows.

> and I find them a little strange anyway, because dLite, which is
> another resident de-compressor operating at file system level, works fine with
> Geos.

I assume that dLite works with INT 13 then.

> [If you want, I can send it to you...]

Plese, I am also interested.

sedlakj@dec59.ruk.cuni.cz