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 ReadManiac - Compressed formats support notes
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 Starting from version 2.0, ReadManiac supports compressed formats.

 Zip files can be handled only on phones with >300Kb of heap memory. 
This means that ZIP is not supported on sl45i, C55, M55 and most of 
series 40 Nokia phones.

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 ZIP
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 This format gives best compression (<50%). 

 ZIP files can be browsed as directory in file menu. 
Subdirectories inside ZIP are allowed.

 ReadManiac will not give any messages on corrupted archives. 
They will be listed as empty, or text in file will be corrupted. 

 Jumping to the random page or paging backwards can be slow with ZIP files. 
Luckily, most people read books forward :) When midlet is decompressing a 
long portion of a file, progress indicator will appear on the screen. 
If user press SELECT, CANCEL or 5 key during that time, midlet will cancel 
decompression and jump to the first page. Cancelled postion is recored 
in "Furthest" bookmark.  

 "Supporting ZIP files" means ZIPed txt files, not ZIPed pdb's, prc's, 
tcr's or recursivelly ZIPed txt's :)

 ZIP files can be created with the following utilities:

  WinZip http://www.winzip.com/

  WinRar http://www.rarlab.com/



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 PDB/PRC
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 This format gives good compression(~70%) with fast random access.

 pdb/prc are Palm Pilot databases. Make sure you have got right files, 
since pdb is a general container, and can contain various content.
The only supported content are PilotDoc(AportisDoc), TealDoc and 
and HandStory texts. iSilo format is NOT supported (if someone 
knows how to decompress this format, please email me).

 PDB/PRC can be created with the following utilities:

  MakeDocW http://www.pierce.de/makedocw.html
  
  DocReader http://mpickering.homeip.net/phpwiki/index.php/DocReader

  MakeDoc7  http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/downloads/utils/makedoc7.zip


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 TCR
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 This format give sligtly better compression compared to pdb, but
should be indexed on first open. This can take even several minutes
for large files on 55 series. If user press SELECT, CANCEL or 5 key 
during indexing, midlet will cancel file opening.

 TCR can be created with the following utilities:

  TCR  http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/downloads/utils/tcr_win32.zip

  WinTCR  http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/downloads/utils/wintcr.zip
 
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 Donwloading compressed files
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 First of all, compressed files can not be downloaded partially. 
Also midlet should not try to add headers, like it does for TXT and HTM
files, so "Compressed file(binary download)" option should be checked in 
"Enter URL" form. "Start from offset" field is ignored in this mode.

