Short:        dicpng - compress data into png-images
Author:       Rupert Hausberger <natmeg@gmx.net>
Uploader:     Rupert Hausberger <natmeg gmx net>
Type:         util/pack
Version:      1.1
Architecture: ppc-morphos

Description
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  DIC stands for "Data Image Compress" and is an algorythm
  to compress data into images. PNG is used as output-format,
  therefore the executable-name is "dicpng".

  - The png-image of a compressed data can be shown like any other png-image.
  - The compression-ratio is nearly that of LHA, depends on data. Seems to
    have nice ratios on binaries but bad on text-files.
  - The input-data is threaded in a special way to gain a better ratio.
  - The info for decompression is stored as a png-tag.

Requirements
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  - MorphOS 1.x
  - png.library
  - z.library

Installation
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  Copy the executable to C:

Usage
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  dicpng does only work from a shell.

  Arguments
  ---------
  IN/A,OUT

  IN/A - Input filname
  OUT  - Output filename

  Examples
  --------
  dicpng ram:test                 - Compress ram:test to ram:test.png
  dicpng ram:test.png             - Uncompress ram:test.png to ram:test
  dicpng ram:test.png OUT ram:out - Uncompress ram:test.png to ram:out

  WARNING: The output-file is overwriten without prompt!

Author
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  ©2009-2012 Rupert Hausberger <natmeg@gmx.net>
  http://natmeg.mooo.com/

License
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  GPL. Please refer to the file COPYING for details.

History
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  Please refer to the file ChangeLog for details.