Re: A92: compression
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Re: A92: compression
At 15:15 01/04/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>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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