slf@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Stewart Forster) (06/25/91)
Hi, In a recent posting of comparing compressors, Peter Guttman made reference to the LZFG compression method. Would anybody care to enlighten me on this method, or at least direct me to some papers which describe it? I haven't seen anything in the formal publications. Thank you in advance, Stewart Forster. -- Stewart Forster (slf@cs.mu.OZ.AU) Any opinions are strictly my own, as if they weren't!
jloup@nocturne.chorus.fr (Jean-Loup Gailly) (06/25/91)
In article <9117612.20925@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, slf@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Stewart Forster) writes: | In a recent posting of comparing compressors, Peter Guttman made | reference to the LZFG compression method. Would anybody care to | enlighten me on this method, or at least direct me to some papers which | describe it? I haven't seen anything in the formal publications. I used a variant of LZFG in the portable zip 0.8 (and abandonned it since for a faster algorithm). The source code is available to members of info-zip (info-zip-request@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil). A similar variant is used in LHA 2.12. The reference is: Fiala,E.R., and Greene,D.H. Data Compression with Finite Windows, CACM, 32,4 (1989) 490-595. Note that the LZFG algorithm is patented. Jean-loup Gailly Chorus systemes, 6 av G. Eiffel, 78182 St-Quentin-en-Yvelines-Cedex, France email: jloup@chorus.fr Tel: +33 (1) 30 64 82 79 Fax: +33 (1) 30 57 00 66