Re: LZ: a zipping utility

Subject: Re: LZ: a zipping utility
From: Tony Lieuallen <marvin@saturn.superlink.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 15:37:19 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <8C7B483.0001007EA9.uuout@aquila.com>

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, SAM STAUFFER wrote:


> -> Update:  I checked something out and if we can get an algorithm as
> -> good as zip, then we can get about 46% compression.  I have a big zip
> -> of a lot of .85s and .85g files, that has an average compression of
> -> that.  That would make a savings of about 12k in the above example.
> I know of an easy to implement compression algorithm that's better than
> Deflate ( which is what ZIP uses ) and is not patended.


Cool!  Tell us so that someone that can program ASM can do it!


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