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- From: pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer)
- Subject: Re: Source for Lempel-Ziv
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- Keywords: lempel
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:01:37 GMT
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- In <hess.726398005@swt7> hess@swt7.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Hess) writes:
-
- >Hi,
- >
- >I would like to save some space by storing long data structures
- >temporary in a compressed form. Though I don`t want to loose much
- >time in compressing and decompressing them, I look for a
- >lempel-ziv coder/decoder source, that will make it as simple as
- >possible to store and retrive huge arrays.
-
- [...]
-
- >Hauke
-
- I don't remember exactly, but you may want to look through either
- the 1989 or 1990 issues of Dr Dobb's. There's a good article on
- LZW compression somewhere. It's featured on the cover, if that helps.
-
- The algorithm and its implementation are fairly simple, once you've
- understood the principles.
-
- Peter Herweijer
- pieterh@sci.kun.nl
-