[comp.compression] WANTED free code for compressing short strings

djm@eecs.umich.edu (David Musliner) (06/29/91)

I'm looking for a compression algorithm which works efficiently on short
strings of alphanumeric data (approx. 300 bytes).  I have large samples of
the data to be compressed, so could get fairly accurate frequency statistics
for a Huffman coding approach.   The data strings must be compressed and 
decompressed without reference to each other, so adaptive coding algorithms
which depend on long strings are not suitable.

Does anyone out there have public domain code for Huffman coding or other
suitable approaches (preferably in perl [or C])?  Please drop me an 
email note.

thanx

-->Dave Musliner
djm@sawtooth.eecs.umich.edu