stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) (04/16/91)
Does anyone have a good document explaining LZW? I've seen numerous articles explaining it, but I want to find something that outlines the basic theory and the implementation of it. Thanks Steven Chiang Coming Soon: DreamGrafix 3200 color power stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu America On_Line: DWS Steve Apple IIgs Forever! # With a 4 line .sig, which is all my mailer will post! :P #
yjohn@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (John Ross) (04/17/91)
In article <1991Apr16.151750.19771@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes: > Does anyone have a good document explaining LZW? I've seen >numerous articles explaining it, but I want to find something that >outlines the basic theory and the implementation of it. The April issue of BYTE magazine has a pretty good introductory article on lossless data compression. The author discusses both Huffman and LZW compression and supplies pseudocode implementations for the two algorithms. JWR