Compression Algorithims
john.urban
urban at cbnewsl.att.com
Thu May 2 00:24:40 AEST 1991
In article <47 at swatty.UUCP> root at swatty.UUCP (Superuser) writes:
>What compression algorithms does SCO Unix use in its compress and pack commands
>???
>
>Is there an easy way to get source of this stuff???
>
>Thanx,
>
>Larry Krone
Assuming that SCO UNIX is based on AT&T UNIX System V Release 3.2 ....
pack uses the Huffman encoding program
and
compress uses the an algorithm from "A Technique for High Performance Data
Compression" IEEE Computer Vol 17, No 6 (June 1984) pages 8 -> 19
Sincerely,
John Urban
att!garage!jbu
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