Hi
27 Mar 2001, Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> At least I don't know any browser which supports ZBMs ...
>> (including Arachne ... which until now doesn't support it without
>> tampering with mime.cfg)
CV> Tampering is not a fair description of the process of adding to
CV> MIME.cfg. That's what MIME.cfg is _FOR_, IMHO. ;-)
Not for freaks like us ;) ... but for normal users yes ...
> > IMHO Arachne has a PNG converter included.
> I KNOW you don't care about efficiency (speed or .exe size) but that
> silly PNG2BMP.exe converter is 90112 bytes and requires CWSDPMI.exe
> (20217 bytes) just to get started.
90 K is not much for a 30 Gig HDD, which costed much less than the 450 MB
HDD for my old 486 ...
The version which came with a 1.70 is even larger ...
(but you can compress it if you want)
C:\>upx png2bmp.exe
Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
UPX 1.07d Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar Feb 20th
2001
File size Ratio Format Name
-------------------- ------ ----------- -----------
114328 -> 56020 48.99% djgpp2/coff png2bmp.exe
Packed 1 file.
Still 56 K
PS: DPMI Server is allways loaded (qemm's qdpmi) so I don't need cwsdpmi.
And PNG decompression can take on a 386 ...
this is why I ask why not update to a pentium I ??
> They are BOTH obviously external to Arachne, just like any unzipper
> would be.
Arachne is a special case ...
they are NOT external to other browsers.
And they are only external to arachne, because she has to cope with the DOS
640K limit. (ie realmode)
> I know, you think 32 bit operation must be faster.
no ... 32 bit DOS programs are actually a bit slower, because they have to
switch back to realmode, if they want to call a dos function.
BUT (big but) you have a flat address space.
You don't need to make error prone operations like xswap, and you are not
that incredinly limited.
CV> - Clarence Verge
CU, Ricsi
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