I wrote the original in 1998 and recently found the code again but it was 10 years old and I no longer write code that way so I need a new one that was fast enough to handle much larger source files. This version produces 3 types of output,
1, A basic string function.
2. Returns the address and length of the DB data for direct read in operations like writing the data to disk.
3. Raw DB output with the file name and length written above it.
Seems to handle files well over 10 meg with no problems and outputs 50 to 60 meg files with ease. The main time is the disk read and write times but that reasonably normal for operations of this type.