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Zip Magic can do it.
Anyway, if someone is curious and doesn't know of it yet Zip Magic is at
www.mijenix.com
Not only programs in Windows but DOS utilities can see the zip "folder" as
well. Just made a quick check and it was about a 5 times difference from
uncompressed tga files and pretty much a unnoticeable background occurance.
I don't need to save disk space at the moment but if I ever do this will do
fine I believe.
Bob
"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote in message
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> Mark Gordon wrote:
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> > POV-Ray also uses (as part of PNG support) zlib, which includes
> > functions that provide support for GNU zipped files. The gzip manual
> > page says that gzip and PKZip both use Lempel-Ziv rather than LZW, so
> > that should be completely clear of problems.
> >
> > That handles feasibility. So, how useful do people think such a thing
> > would be?
> >
> > -Mark Gordon
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> I know one suggestion comes up from time to time and that is the ability
> to zip image files on the fly for animation work. This is especialy true
> for file types like .tga and .bmp which do not offer built in compression
> methods. I have heard a couple of people mention that this can already
> be done with shell commands but it would be nice if it was done internaly
> to reduce cycle times during high frame count animations.
>
> --
> Wishing you Seasons Greetings, A Merry Christmas, and A Happy New Year !
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