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- .name
- compress
- .author
- Thomas Spencer
- with improvements by others
- .description
- Compress reduces the size of the named files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv
- coding. The amount of compression obtained depends on the size of the
- input, the number of bits per code, and the distribution of common
- substrings. Typically, text such as source code or English is reduced by
- 50-60%. Compression is generally much better then that achieved by Huffman
- coding (as used in "pack") or adaptive Huffman coding (as used in
- "compact"), and takes less time to compute. Great for saving disk space,
- or reducing transmission time over phone lines! Also includes "btoa" and
- "atob" for converting binary files to ascii, and then back to binary (for
- transmission over links that do not support 8 bits).
- .described-by
- Automatically generated from Contents file by c2pi program.
- .short
- Compression program using LSW coding.
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