Re: [NTLK] ATA support on the eMate and Questions about eBooks

From: Brian Mayton (bmayton_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 12:22:42 PDT


On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 08:11 AM, Paul Guyot wrote:

> Il me semble que le 13/5/03 =E0 01:42 -0700, Jeremy Bond Shepherd nous=20=

> racontait:
>> The Newton OS uses Unicode instead of ASCII, which results in text
>> items like books being approxmiately (exactly?) double the size of
>> their ASCII counterparts.
>
> Twice the size indeed, fortunately NewtonOS includes a compander for
> Unicode data.
>
Hmmm... How can I utilize the compander? I can't find an option=20
anywhere in Newton Press to compress the data at all. Is there a=20
different ebook generator/reader that will do this?

Thanks.

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