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From: duncans@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Duncan E Smith)
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Subject: Dictionary-based archiver
Keywords: archiver
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Date: 28 Jan 91 04:07:36 GMT
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Does anyone know of a (preferably PD/Shareware) program that compresses files
using a dictionary. PKZip, et al do a great job, but it seems that something
dictionary-based would really save space, and I have lots of English text files
lying around waiting to be squished. I believe that something like this exists
(saw it a long time ago in a magazine article about archivers), but I've never
been able to find one in any of the BBSes, anonymous FTP sites, etc. that I've
frequented.