Does anyone know RLC(Run length Coding)

[User 1990498]

Hi, is anyone familiar with RLC? Is it possible to write a prog to compress RAW file using RLC then link it up with a mainframe menu button? Pls help!!

[Christian Graus]

sclh wrote: Is it possible to write a prog to compress RAW file using RLC then link it up with a mainframe menu button? Link it in what way ? What are you trying to do ? ( The core answer is yes, of course it's possible ) Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

[User 1990498]

Link it so that when I click the menu button which I name it as RLC a dialog box will pop up and I am able to choose the RAW file to be compress using RLC. Thks.

[Christian Graus]

Well, that's plainly possible. The question is, why do you want to encode a RAW file ? Try this[^] Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

[John M Drescher]

BTW. Run length coding (RLC) and run length encoding (RLE) are the same thing. I have read this many places where they use the two terms interchangibly. So Yes. This is very easy to do. I bet can do this in less than 20 minutes with the info here http://www.arturocampos.com/ac_rle.html[^] Here is a link with actual code (however this uses a slightly different method to mark/determine the end of a run) : http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/rle/[^] John

[John M Drescher]

Here is another link about RLE. http://www.fileformat.info/mirror/egff/ch09_03.htm[^] John