note about compressed records

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diff --git a/docs/cronos-research.md b/docs/cronos-research.md
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@@ -169,4 +169,13 @@ the `Base000` entry contains the record number for the table definition of the f
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+## compressed records
+
+some records are compressed, the format is like this:
+
+    word16 size
+    byte   head[2] = { 8, 0 }
+    word32 crc32
+    byte   compdata[size-4]
+    byte   tail[3] = { 0, 0, 2 }