ANNOUNCE: SAMflate - gzip file decoder

Hello all,

I would like to announce immediate availability of a new program:

SAMflate

- an implementation of the inflate decompression algorithm from  
RFC1951, as used by gzip and other compatible utilities. In other  
words, it's like gunzip for the Sam.

Note that I have not implemented the compression side - instead you  
use the standard gzip utility on your Mac/PC/Unix computer to compress  
a file, and SAMflate running on the Sam will decode it for you.

You can download it here:

http://www.worldofsam.org/freelinking/SAMflate

Source code is also available[1], for anyone who wants to incorporate  
it into other programs:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/samflate/

[1] At least it will be, as soon as sourceforge admins get around to  
approving the project

(requires pyz80 for assembly, I took a few shortcuts when writing it...)

Please have a go, and do let me know if you find it useful or if you  
have any trouble with it!

I'd be especially interested if you have a file it can't decode (there  
may be bugs in the handling of Block Types 0 and 1 - the code isn't  
really tested because I couldn't persuade gzip to make that sort of  
file to try it with! Block Type 2 is the most efficient, and gzip  
seems to use it for all compression levels 1 to 9, so it's unlikely  
that anyone will see that problem...)

Cheers,
Andrew

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