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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: random access with .Z files
- Message-ID: <2994@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 13:40:05 GMT
- References: <ROBERT.92Aug18172331@n051.saskg.semicon.sony.co.jp>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <ROBERT.92Aug18172331@n051.saskg.semicon.sony.co.jp> robert@n051.saskg.semicon.sony.co.jp (Robert Veltman) writes:
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- >Is it possible to read a compressed file (LZW I think in the case of
- >UNIX compress) and extract the dictionary information in order to be
- >able to do random fseeks in the compressed file and decode from that
- >point on?
-
- No.
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- Most compression algorithms build some kind of context ("dictionary")
- during decompression. Starting in the middle is than not possible.
- Special schemes which DO allow this exist (e.g. Stacker uses one)
- but .Z is not one of them.
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- >Robert Veltman -- SONY Semiconductor Group Atsugi Japan
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- Nico E. de Vries
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