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From: hal@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Aaron Harsh)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Is there better lossless compression than LZW?
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Date: 23 May 91 21:28:02 GMT
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  The only lossless compression algorithms I've seen have either been LZW
or its derivatives (AP, MW and Y-coding) or Huffman encoding.  These seem
fast, but their compression doesn't seem that remarkable.  Are there any
other general purpose algorithms that achieve better results, even at the
expense of speed?

Aaron Harsh
hal@eecs.cs.pdx.edu