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- .name
- Compress
- .author
- Thomas Spencer
- with improvements by others
- .description
- This is an update to the compress version released on disk number 6. It is
- tested and seems to work well except for a couple glitches noticed at the
- last minute (see the README file). 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.
- .described-by
- Automatically generated from Contents file by c2pi program.
- .short
- A compression program using LZW coding.
-