Wanted:Compaction Algorithm

P.K. Maheshwari pkm at pierce.UUCP
Thu Feb 20 05:26:05 AEST 1986


	TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
	----------------------

I am in need of a packing algorithm which works better than the
PACK Utility of UNIX.  I have also looked at COMPRESS ( developed
at University of Utah ).  COMPRESS works great if distinct number
of input bytes is small.  But if the distinct input bytes reach
256 ( binary data ), PACK works better than COMPRESS.  With PACK
I am getting a saving of 20-25%.  If anybody has an algorithm
that would do better in packing "load modules", I would like to
know about it.

THNX...........Padam

Name:			Padam Maheshwari
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