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From: rikitake@jrd.dec.com (Kenji Rikitake)
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Subject: Re: Lempel-Ziv v/s huffman encoding
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Date: 1 Apr 91 03:00:00 GMT
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In article <46466@ut-emx.uucp>, readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) writes...
>Would someone do me the favor of explaining huffman compression? I
>think I have a grip on LZ compression, but I don't even have reference
>for Huffman compression.  

Check out BSD "compact" utility, a straight-forward adaptive huffman coding 
compressor. This utility is rather old, so maybe you cannot find it in your 
UNIX kit. 

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