roberto@cernvax.cern.ch (roberto bagnara) (01/16/91)
Hi all,
I'd need a good compression method with the important peculiarity
of allowing de-compression of *one* record without requiring to read
all the preceding records in the file.
Huffman method would be adequate but the compression rates it gives
for my application are not *that* fantastic.
What I want to do is to compress a dictionary being able to seek on
and decompress individual words. That means that if the method is
table driven the time required to build the table (or any other
initialization structure) is not any relevant.
I'd appreciate any pointer/advice on the subject.
Please respond by email.
Thanks in advance
Roberto