Re: LZ: a zipping utility

Subject: Re: LZ: a zipping utility
From: barrym <barrym@neosoft.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 19:43:45 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <8C7B38E.0001007E4B.uuout@aquila.com>

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, SAM STAUFFER wrote:

> The encryption program could be made to probably a minimum of 5k. If you
> use a good compression algorithm, such as the  BWT Transformation along
> with RLE and Arithmetic compression (Which is better than Deflation,
> what ZIP uses), it was presented in the September 96 issue of Dr. Dobbs.

5k is way too much.  I have a Huffman encoding routine with a
seperate decoder that are about 12 or 14k each.  If they're only
85% as efficient, that's still way better.  Of course only
the decompressor would have to be on the calculator.

Barry

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