Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!ctrsol!sdsu!crash!pnet01!uzun From: uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: huffman encoding Message-ID: <477@crash.cts.com> Date: 4 Oct 89 14:36:04 GMT Sender: root@crash.cts.com Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA Lines: 14 What I was saying was that the bit patterns/bit lengths of the codes used to represent the tokens in a file where there are 256 unique tokens is a constant and will work for all files. that is the table I wanted. -Roger It is true that the bit patterns and bit lengths used to represent tokens varies depending on # of unique tokens in a file, but if that # is assumed to be 256, you have no problem. -Roger UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!uzun ARPA: crash!pnet01!uzun@nosc.mil INET: uzun@pnet01.cts.com