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 Enabling compression
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 To enable compression simply add the command
 BLINKER EXECUTABLE COMPRESS [<factor>]
 to the link script file. The optional compression factor defaults to 5, and
 can be set to any value from 1 to 9, to select a tradeoff between
 compression ratio and speed of compression and decompression.

 A value of 1 forces the maximum compression, which will take the most time
 to link but give the smallest possible .EXE file. A value of 9 forces the
 fastest link whilst still giving reasonable compression.

 Due to the nature of the algorithm, the decompression speed does not vary
 significantly with the compression factor, but as always, test various
 options with the program concerned to ensure the most appropriate behaviour.

 The extra processing required at link time to compress the program will
 result in significantly slower link speeds, so the compression command would
 typically only be used for the final distribution link of the program, or
 when distributing a test version of the program. Apart from the increased
 link times, however, there is no other reason why compression could not be
 used all the time.

 CA-Clipper note: Enabling compression will automatically disable incremental
 linking as these two features cannot be enabled at the same time, due to
 their conflicting nature. This is the only other reason for not using
 compression all the time.