
   November 1998:
   PAK was renamed to oPAQue, due to archive extension 
   conflict with PAK from NoGate.

   PAQ short technical description

1. PAQ was optimized for PACKING SPEED, not for PACKING QUALITY or
   UNPACKING SPEED.
2. 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.
3. PAQ uses the largest available XMS block for file caching,
   that increases speed a little.
4. PAQ's core is pure 386 assembler.
5. PAQ requires 320K of conventional memory.
6. PAQ was tested under DOS, Windows 95 and Windows NT.
7. PAQ.EXE is packed using freeware APACK 0.96b by -Jibz-.

   Please, e-mail your questions or comments to
   ddvoinikov@geocities.com
