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- Splint: a data compression program
- Beta-release version 2.1
- Programmed by Kenji Rikitake
- Modified and tuned for Microsoft C by Naoshi Wakatabe
- Original algorithm innovated by Douglas W. Jones
- Copyright (C)1988, 1989 by Kenji Rikitake and Naoshi Wakatabe.
- All rights reserved.
- Permission to copy this program without fee all or part of this
- material is granted, provided that the copies are not made or
- distributed for direct commercial advantage.
-
- If you have any questions and/or suggestions, Contact
-
- Kenji Rikitake
- 4-19-11-102, Sakurajousui, Setagaya-ku,
- Tokyo 156 Japan
-
- DASnet/TWICS: Kenji@dctwcs.das.net
- JUNET: rikitake%wadalab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp@relay.cs.net
-
- Splint is a Huffman-coding-basis data compression/decompression
- program, based on Jones' idea of using splay-prefix scheme.
- For further details, refer to:
-
- Jones, Douglas. W,:
- Application of Splay Trees to Data Compression,
- Communications ACM, Vol. 31, No. 8, pp. 996 - 1007. (August 1988)
-
- This program uses 64-state Markov model to improve compression rate.
- Usually this program works as better as pkarc Crunching. Sometimes,
- it gives a little bit better result than UNIX compress uses 16bit LZW.
-
- I want to get this method and LZSS together, and make this better than
- LHarc. :-)
-
- This program runs on MS-DOS. You can recompile it on 4.xBSDs using
- makefile.bsd. I have tested this on my NEC PC-9801UV2 computer
- (MS-DOS 3.21) and Sun-4/110 with SunOS 4.0.
-
- Acknowledgements:
- Douglas Jones for his simple and fast algorithm.
- Naoshi Wakatabe for making this program run on MS-C small model.
-
- -- Kenji Rikitake, April 12, 1989 at Tokyo