
                          [32m[43m P - C O M P R E S S  V 2.1 [0;40m

      This version is a replacement for version 1.2 circulated on Fish Disk
   #565.

      The primary aim has been to replace a reasonably effective but somewhat
   unsavoury kludge used in the earlier version, that would have prevented
   future development.  Advantage has been taken of the re-write to remove a
   few minor bugs in both Compress and Unpack, and to enhance the programme
   which is now even more efficient, particularly for pics and longer files,  
   and decompresses even faster. Compression and decompression to and from
   RAM is more friendly.  There is a marginal increase in compression
   time, however compression speed is still ahead of anything else in the
   PD area.

      The penalty is that it has been necessary to change the file header so
   that files or PACKS compressed with V1.2 will need to be re-compressed with
   this version.   Sorry!
      
   Chas A. Wyndham                                           
