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Description of the compress method

Standard Unix compress Utility, Revision 4.0 (30 July 1985)

Test was done with default parameter of -b 16, which gives maximum compression.

The source code for compress is available (compress.c.gz, 13.3KB)



This page last updated Monday, January 08, 2001 by Matt Powell Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury