From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ae40b42b99b8123 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Little tutorial about streams Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:56:40 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ"; logging-data="2802"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18k0rSRrdsRBJHM74yKYZAOp3/nifF3ncI=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mCaEOAJwzj8qkooDtXICxGO3ehs= sha1:iFaIG4Y90rVhYA/ec3R3XC1VHY4= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17682 Date: 2011-03-01T13:56:40+00:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > You can also mention chain code as a technique to implement > S'Read/Write in a platform independent way. ? Wikipedia says "A chain code is a lossless compression algorithm for monochrome images."