****  LINO - ReadMe  ****


		     LINO V1.0, 1995 - (c) Gerhard Tuenkler


 LINO is a file to file packer, which compresses/expands files or directories
 It includes a 'XPK compression interface' (about XPK see lino.doc), to use
 compression software, which is written for this standard.

 Data compression is a software technic to spare space on disk or tape.
 There are different algorithms to do this. From a simple Run-Length-Encoding
 which replaces a sequence of equal bytes with one of this bytes and the
 number of these bytes, as far as the Arithmetic Coding, where the
 probability of a byte within a file determines the code.

 Applications for data compression are archiving files, backup storage,
 and harddisk compressing.
 There are some very good freeware, shareware and commercial applications
 which have a XPK-interface implemented.
 For example: the XPK-package with XFH (a harddisk compressor) on Fish 754,
 EPU (also a harddisk compressor) on Fish 858,  ABackup (a backup utility)
 on Fish 838 (for some references see file lino.doc).

 This package contents:
   LINO 	    a file to file packer (with source code)
   XLIN 	    like lino, but includes 4 packers
   xpkZENO.library  a LZ78 packer


 If you send me 15 $ / 20 DM / 140 OeS , you get the external versions of
 the 4 packers LIN1-4, so you can use them with every XPK-application.
 If you have some ideas, critics or another desire, please write to:


 Gerhard Tuenkler
 Th. Koerner Str. 40/3/11
 A-8010 Graz
 AUSTRIA
 EUROPE

 or

 Gerhard Tuenkler
 A-8551 Wies 23
 AUSTRIA
 EUROPE