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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: Source for Lempel-Ziv
- Keywords: lempel
- Message-ID: <3fKU03=Ic8nc00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 22:11:36 GMT
- References: <C0HLMq.7qL@sci.kun.nl> <allan.726448116@silver-vly> <kko.726457766@sfu.ca>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <kko.726457766@sfu.ca> kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko) writes:
- >Ooooo ... that should be Nelson (Mark Nelson) ... IMNSHO, that is the
- >best book on data compression ...
-
- Well, maybe. Bell/Cleary/Witten does a much better job of explaining the
- WHY of things, but the sample code in Nelson makes up for some of the detail
- that he omits. I don't really care much for his programming style, but
- that's a personal problem. :-)
-
- The sections on context modeling and DCT are very good, though.
-
- >| Samuel C. Ko (aka The Smart One / BOZO) <--> a celebrity & DOS/UNIX wizard :)
- >:) kko@sfu.ca <--> Outspoken,Highly-talented,Charming... I post this for You! |
-
- Hmm.
-
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
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