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From: vss@mathcs.emory.edu (V.S.Sunderam)
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Subject: In-memory compress
Keywords: compress encoding
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Date: 26 Nov 90 16:46:40 GMT
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Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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I am looking for the existence/availability of an "in-memory"
compression utility. I.e., I would like a subroutine equivalent of
compress(1) that takes a buffer and returns an compressed one.

If anyone knows of such a routine, I would appreciate pointers,
or actual code.

Thanks in advance

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