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- -------- Presskit Version 1.0
- -------- May 8th - 1993
- -------- Douglas P. Webb
- -------- dwebb@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
-
-
- I have for several years had an application that required the very best
- compression. The program is written in Turbo Pascal. Naturally almost
- all the code I've come across is written in C, so I've ported as much as
- I could. Of the code presented here, only the DOUGPACK unit is wholely
- my own original code, the rest was ported/wrapped to allow it's use in
- a Turbo Pascal. I figured others might like to try some of it out.
-
- The code is all donated to the public domain, although some of it may
- be under the patent cloud. There may be bugs in the implementations
- (although I don't think so) so use them at your own risk.
-
-
- If you make a notable improvement in the code, please mail me a copy.
-
-
-
- LZH
-
- The LZH unit implements a fairly faithful port of an algorithm that
- was written in C by Haruyasu Yoshizaki and Haruhiko Okumura.
-
- The Documentation on how to use the unit is pretty goodm the source
- code is pretty much undocumented.
-
- Included is a simple 1 file compression program as a demonstration
- on how to use the LZH unit.
-
-
- LZW (DOUGPACK)
-
- The DOUGPACK unit implements my own interpretation of how the LZW
- algorithm should be implemented. I take all the credit/blame for
- the implementation and any bugs it may contain.
-
- The Documentation on how to use the unit is pretty good the source
- code has some documentation but is pretty convoluted.
-
- Included is a simple 1 file compression program as a demonstration
- on how to use this unit.
-
- It should be noted that the LZW algorithm is patented, so use of this
- algorithm in a commercial program might not be a good idea.
-
-
- LZSS
-
- The LZSS program implements a turbo pascal wrapper I've placed around
- a very nice (and fast) implementation of the LZ77 algorithm submitted
- to the DR DOBBS compression contest a few years back by Andy Tam.
-
- The algorithm is implemented in the context of a stand-alone file
- compression utility, which can be used to compress/decompress files
- one at a time.
-
- It should be noted that the plain LZ77 algorithm is unpatented, so
- using this code in a commercial application should be OK.
-
-
- SIXPACK
-
- The SIXPACK program implements a faithful port from C of a unique
- compression algorithm submitted to the DR DOBBS compression contest
- a few years back by Philip G. Gage.
-
- The algorithm is implemented in the context of a stand-alone file
- compression utility, which can be used to compress/decompress files
- one at a time.
-
-
- VITTER
-
- This is a implementation of the dynamic Huffman coding algorithm
- presented by Jeffrey Scott Vitter in ACM Transactions on Mathematical
- Software, Vol, 15, June 1989, p 158, and described in Journal of the
- ACM, Vol. 34, October 1987, p 825.
-
- The algorithm is implemented in the context of a stand-alone file
- compression utility, which can be used to compress/decompress files
- one at a time. This program serves only to illustrate the use of
- the algorithm.
-
-
- Douglas P. Webb
- dwebb@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
- May 8th 1993
-