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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Best text compression?
- Message-ID: <D88-JWA.92Sep7111945@dront.nada.kth.se>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 10:19:45 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.214518.9599@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- In-Reply-To: agoates@nyx.cs.du.edu's message of Thu, 3 Sep 92 21:45:18 GMT
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- > agoates@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alan Goates) writes:
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- Second, does anyone know what the best published (Public Domain) algorithm is
- for compressing text. And does anyone know where I could get my hands on example
- source code for said algorithm (The only one I've seen is Lempel-Ziv).
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- Lempel-Ziv isn't too bad (actually, that's two whole familys of
- algorithms)
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- Source avaialble for the macintosh is LZRW-1b which is a high-
- speed, LZ-77 derivative.
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- "Yabba" is an LZ-78 relative that also is in the public domain.
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