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- xpkLZCB.library
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- Beta version 1.1
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- September 23, 1995
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- Copyright (c) 1995 by Charles Bloom
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- contact : cbloom@mail.utexas.edu
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- xpkLZCB is a high compression libary for use with the xpk
- utilities. It attains higher compression than all competing
- LZ-based algorithms (such as SHRI,GZIP,ZIP,UC2,RAR,YAC,QUANTUM,HPACK..)
- It is slightly faster than SHRI on compression, and slightly
- slower on decompression.
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- For maximum compression, you must use a very large XPK chunk size
- (i.e. the whole file in one chunk, if possible).
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- Technical information:
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- xpkLZCB is an LZSS (LZ77, aka ZL1) based compressor. It uses:
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- a 64k byte window size
- arithmetic encoding
- a minimum match length of 5
- literal-flags are encoded as a match length of 0
- follows by a literal-run-length, followed by
- the literals themselves
- order-1-0 context coding of literals
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