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[popohoma]

Hi,

I wrote a assembly code that perform the compression of file. I want to ask if the following code can be improve or if you guys has a better algorithm. Please give me some advisement and improvement opinion.

thank you

Allen


Here is part of main code:


Filename db 20 dup (?)
Buffer db 20 dup (?)
command_line db 20 dup (?), '$'
compress_code db 4 dup (?)
Buffer db ?
tmpBuffer db ?
cCounter db 0
rCounter db 0
tmpCounter db 0
FHndl dw ?
out_handle dw ?


WriteCompressedCode:
push cx
lea di, compress_code
mov byte ptr [di], '*'
mov bl, rCounter
mov byte ptr [di+1], bl
mov bl, tmpBuffer
mov byte ptr [di+2], bl
mov ah, 40h
mov bx, out_handle
lea dx, compress_code
mov cx,3
int 21h
mov ah, 40h
mov cx, 1
lea dx, Buffer
int 21h
pop cx
jmp LP

 

[mach57]

The Limpel-Ziv algorithm is hard to beat for a general-purpose compression technique. Check this out:

http://www.torchia.org/Programming/web files/source code/Assembly/Lzcomp.asm.txt