Wanted:Compaction Algorithm

Spencer W. Thomas thomas at utah-gr.UUCP
Thu Feb 20 12:31:27 AEST 1986


Actually, compress works best if there are repeated SEQUENCES in the
input data.  It doesn't really matter so much how many different codes
there are, except that one is more likely to get repeated sequences if
there are fewer codes.

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