Re: A92: compression


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Re: A92: compression




At 15:15 01/04/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I became interested in data compression a few months ago, so I asked
around on
>the usenet group for data compression about what book to get about it.
>Everyone said to get The Data Compression Book by Mark Nelson and Jean-Loup
>Gailly.  I did, and it is very good.  It covers Shannon-Fano, Huffman, and
>Arithmetic compression, including adaptive compression and different
orders of
>each algorithm.  Then it covers standard dictionary-based compression
methods,
>such as LZSS and LZW.  It also covers image compression techniques such as
>JPEG and fractal image compression.  It is pretty easy to understand and
>includes source code for everything.  I would highly recommend it to anyone
>who is interested in the subject of data compression.
>

I made a LZW compression algorithm a long time ago for the 
TI92. I am now decided to use it to make a PCTOOLS98
compression plugin.
But first I will make a compression plugin using the huffman
algorithm in ziplib

Benoit



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