PAK was renamed to oPAQue, due to archive extension
conflict with PAK from NoGate.
oPAQue short technical description:
PAQ was optimized for PACKING SPEED, not for PACKING QUALITY or UNPACKING
SPEED.
PAQ uses plain Lempel-Ziv algorithm, with 4096 nodes table, and always writes 12 bits/node. Still there is a small improvement
that gains few more percents of compression.
PAQ uses the largest available XMS block for file caching, that increases speed a little.
PAQ's core is pure 386 assembler.
PAQ requires 320K of conventional memory.
PAQ was tested under DOS, Windows 95 and Windows NT.
PAQ.EXE is packed using freeware APACK 0.96b by -Jibz-.