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From: carlsona@en.ecn.purdue.edu (The Lossel)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Dictionary-based archiver
Keywords: archiver
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.161216.28110@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 91 16:12:16 GMT
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 It's been a long time since I read the information on PKZIP's compression
methods, but doesn't the 'Imploding' compression use a 'sliding dictionary'
as part of the compression scheme?  Anyone really familliar with the PKZIP
compression care to comment?

						- The Lossel