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From: gks@doc.ic.ac.uk (Gary K Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Best Algorithms?
Message-ID: <1991May20.134224.22881@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 20 May 91 13:42:24 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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Does anyone know of a fairly simple and quick way to decide which of the 
different algoritms is the best to compress a particular file - apart
from the obvious of keep on trying different ones, and select the best?

I have just discovered that using different bit widths for both input and
output on LZW can make a very big difference to the size of the result.
Does anyone know how to decide what bit sizes are likely to be best?



Thanks


Gary

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