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- From: roland@sun-2.cs.uct.ac.za (Roland Paterson-Jones)
- Subject: Best compression technique & ratio for (ascii) text
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:10:35 GMT
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- Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I am interested in knowing what compression ratios
- are possible for English text in ascii. Unix's compress (adaptive Lev-Zimpil)
- claims 50-60% for such files. Is this as good as can be done? Quick
- decompression would be essential.
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- Thanks for any responses...
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- Roland P-Jones aka roland@uctcs.cs.uct.ac.za
- University of Cape Town or roland@sun-2.cs.uct.ac.za
- South Africa
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