[net.announce] Text compression contacts wanted

lwt1@aplvax.UUCP (Lloyd W. Taylor) (06/22/84)

At the Summer USENIX conference, I volunteered to look into using a text
compression algorithm to reduce the cost of news transmissions over
long-distance phone lines.  I would appreciate hearing from anyone who
has experience in/knowledge of text compression techniques.

I'm particularly interested in existing code that might be modified for 
use, and comparisons of various algorithms (Huffman, LZW, etc.).

Thank you in advance.
						-Lloyd W. Taylor
						 Johns Hopkins University
						 Applied Physics Laboratory
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