The PowerPlayer Music Cruncher
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There are more powerful datacrunchers than the PowerPacker, but LhArc has
got a complex file-format and the IMPLODER has no commentated function in
its explode.library to decrunch FileImploder's datafiles, so I was very
happy to receive the Lh.Library and include my own cruncher/decruncher-
utility (PMC) to the PowerPlayer.  The usage of the PMC is veeeerrry
simple.  You only have to open a CLI/SHELL and then type in PMC, the name
of the file to crunch and finally the name of the destination-file.
Example:

PMC df0:modules/MOD.PowerTheme df0:modules/MOD.PowerTheme.LH

PMC will then display something like

Crunching df0:modules/MOD.PowerTheme, Please stand by !

And after an unimportant little time (99 secs) it will display the result:

	Result
	------
	Uncrunched: 214418
	Crunched: 158052
	Percentage: 73

PowerPacker crunched the same file in 109 secs, but only crunched it to
168760 bytes (78 %).  The only advantage of PowerPacker is that it
decrunches in 10 secs (Lh:  14 secs).  I do not want to harm poor ole Nico
 :-) but I think that YOU should crunch with PMC if you don't already have
the PowerPacker.  Or just don't crunch the stuff if you have a harddisk big
 & quick enough with hundreds of free megabytes.
( I don't have the latter :-( ).

It may happen that the percentage is wrong.  This happens if the crunched
file is too big.  The reason for this is the 16 Bit Source of the CPU-Divu
Operation.  Of course, the file is not affected.

PMC creates files of the SFHD-Format (Stephan Fuhrmann's High Density :-)
).  Typical for these files is the 4 bytes ID 'SFHD' at the beginning.  The
2nd long is the uncrunched length,the 3rd long is the crunched length.

I have seen some guys loading up modules on BBSs in the PMC-format.
PLEASE use '.PMC' as suffix and note that they need PowerPlayer to replay.
AND check the BBS wether there's PowerPlayer existing or not, they
won't be very happy if they download the stuff and don't find the
PowerPlayer !

An example BBS-entry could look like this:
SONG.PMC	Very good module, use PowerPlayer to replay

I recommend uploading the modules in the PMC-format without unimportant
'trash' because you don't have to decrunch manually, the file needs
less diskspace (it's still crunched) and there's last but not least
the PMC-format that has been developed ONLY for the PowerPlayer, so
you _NEED_ the PowerPlayer to decrunch ß-} ! By doing this you can
show your consent to the PowerPlayer!