Newsgroups: comp.compression
Path: utzoo!utgpu!yjohn
From: yjohn@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (John Ross)
Subject: Re: LZW Documentation
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.123519.5433@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Keywords: LZW
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <1991Apr16.151750.19771@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 12:35:19 GMT

In article <1991Apr16.151750.19771@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
>	Does anyone have a good document explaining LZW?  I've seen
>numerous articles explaining it, but I want to find something that
>outlines the basic theory and the implementation of it.

The April issue of BYTE magazine has a pretty good introductory article on
lossless data compression.  The author discusses both Huffman and LZW
compression and supplies pseudocode implementations for the two algorithms.

JWR