Algorithm used in compress/decompress ?

john.urban urban at cbnewsl.att.com
Wed Apr 17 00:08:08 AEST 1991


Compress basically uses the Algorithm from IEEE Computer Vol 17, No 6 (June 1984)

Where as pack basically uses the Huffman encoding algorithm

Sincerely,

John Urban



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