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- From: allan@cs.UAlberta.CA (Allan Sullivan)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: Source for Lempel-Ziv
- Keywords: lempel
- Message-ID: <allan.726448116@silver-vly>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 23:08:36 GMT
- References: <hess.726398005@swt7> <C0HLMq.7qL@sci.kun.nl>
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- pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- There is a book called "The Data Compression Book" by Newton which
- covers LZ77 and LZ78 compression. Some versions of the book come
- with a cover disk which has source code for compression.
-