> Does anyone know how RLE-compression is actually implemented in PalmOS ?
>
> It is not present in PilRC 2.6 (although I have been told it could be in the
> Handspring version), nor documented in the Knowledge Base.
it will be in upcoming releases of PilRC though :) someone is working
on implementing the modifications for us right now.
> All what I know about RLE is that it relies on detection of sequences of
> identical items. However, there are several encoding schemes.
>
> So the question is : what is the precise specification of PalmOS RLE ?
well, i have always known RLE to be one way :) i would of course assume
that Palm are using byte:byte encoding techniques. if we had the 3.5
sources, we could find out for sure :)) David, do you wish to elaborate
on this?
// az
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