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- From: oauld@ponder.csci.unt.edu (orion okotu auld)
- Subject: Re: compression of small files
- Message-ID: <oauld.721554414@ponder>
- Keywords: small files 1024 bytes
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- Organization: University of North Texas
- References: <1992Nov11.210509.20715@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:46:54 GMT
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- In <1992Nov11.210509.20715@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> jef0@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (john.e.fetchko) writes:
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- >Does anyone have information on any compression routines
- >that work well on the compression of small files ?
- > ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
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- >work well: means a good compression ratio, speed is unimportant.
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- >small files: means 1024 bytes or less.
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- >Or would a file of such a size be too small to effectively compress ?
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- I suppose it depends on the kind of data. The more we can assume about
- it, the better.
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- As far as general compression algorithms are concerned, and general files,
- most often files of that length are too short to compress using dictionary
- techniques like LZW, but perhaps adaptive coding techniques might be
- better.
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- --Orion
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