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- From: Teresa Reiko <tjr19@mail.nwlink.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Huffman encoding
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 17:46:25 GMT
- Organization: Northwest Link
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- aholder@li.net (Andrew Holder) wrote:
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- >>Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can program a simple version
- >>of Huffman encoding/decoding in the C language?
- >>
- >>I am looking for source code to implemet a "two-pass" Huffman encoding
- >>scheme which would read characters from a file on the first pass and
- >>then perform the encoding and the second pass...
- >>
- >>Any help or suggestions would be much, much appreciated!!
- >
- >Look for the uuecode program posted on this news group. that will give
- >you some source code to go by. Good luck.
- >
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- Huh? UUencode is NOT the same as Huffman coding. UUencode is a way of
- representing binary data as text for transmission in e-mail, etc, and
- Huffman coding is representing any data with less bits, therefore
- compressing it. Anyway, this discussion should be in comp.compression.
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- Teresa Reiko Chief Programmer, Tenbyte Software tjr19@nwlink.com
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