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Subject: Re: A rather naive request.
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From: drenze@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Douglas Renze)
Date: 26 Mar 91 05:04:42 GMT
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In article <1265@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
>In article <5023@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> drenze@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Douglas Renze) writes:
>>I'm a rather novice programmer who is just beginning to teach himself C (on an
>>apple macintosh, no less).  If somebody has the time, would they please be
>>willing to point me to a decent basic reference on compression techniques?  I'm
>
>Well, I'm not an expert in this field, but this is what I'd do if I wanted
>to know more about this topic:
>	1.  Get my favorite algorithms/data structures book, and look up
>	    Huffman encoding.  If it wasn't in there, I'd strongly consider
>	    choosing a new favorite algorithms book. ;-)
>	2.  Study the parts on Huffman encoding.
>	3.  Follow up the bibliographical references as interest dictated.
>
>
>-- 
>Dave Schaumann | dave@cs.arizona.edu | Short .sig's rule!

You make one mistaken assumption in this article:  You assume that I know enough
C to *have* a favorite algorithms/data structures book.

I *told* you I'm only a very, very novice beginner. ;-)

But seriously, thank you, and thanx to all the people who swamped me with ad-
vice.  I've gotten some very good leads, most noteably the current issue of
BYTE which has the LZ & H algorithms described in it.

Peace and Long Life

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