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- From: bk@Turing.ORG (Brian Knatz)
- Subject: Huffman code
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.140247.29381@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Summary: Needed: code for compressing text files
- Keywords: Huffman, compression, encryption
- Sender: Brian Knatz
- Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
- References: <EIGENSTR.92Sep10204230@nyssa.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:02:47 GMT
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- Hi all. Does anyone have Huffman code handy?
-
- Huffman code does a statistical analysis of the distribution
- of symbols in a string (eg. characters in a text file) and
- generates unambigous symbols of varying bit-length, where the
- most common symbols have the shortest encoding.
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- Any help in finding the code (so I don't have to figure out
- how to write it myself) will be much appreciated.
-
- thanks,
-
- bk
-
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