[comp.lang.forth] Arithmetic Coding Compression

marcos@netcom.UUCP (Marcos H. Woehrmann) (02/16/90)

I'm looking for an article about "Arithmetic Coding Compression"
which appeared in one of the ACM SIG publications a few months ago. 
Unfortunately I don't know more than that, so I'm having trouble
getting a copy of the article.  If you remember reading about this
please mail me.  (The article apparently include FORTH code, which
might help to jog your memory.)
 
Thanks.
 
marcos

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xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) (02/16/90)

I couldn't find the issue of the CACM in which the article Marcos
sought was published, but I did dig out my (hand typed from the
article) copy of the code (it was in C, not Forth).  I ran a test with
it against the newly published M-W variant of L-Z encoding, and
published my results together with the C source code in alt.sources
for the amusement and edification of the net.  Included in my brief
report is a suggestion for possible new applications of adaptive
arithmetic encoding to UUCP file transmission.
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