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Subject: Need information on data compression algorithms
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Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 10:45:48 EST
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Reply-To: jsm@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu (Jon Meltzer)
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Needed : information on data compression techniques and algorithms, such as
Huffman coding  and Lempel-Zev, that are used in programs such as SQ and
ARC. I need something that is fast enough to be transparent to the user in
an interactive system.

I don't know anything about the topic, and would appreciate suggestions of
good, comprehensive textbooks containing algorithms.

A few weeks ago a version of ARC was posted to either net.sources or
mod.sources (source code for UNIX*   , I believe). If anyone saved this
posting, I would appreciate a copy.

Thank you ... please email responses ...


Jon Meltzer
Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University


*UNIX is a trademark of you-know-who.