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Re: compression algorithms



Regarding mail from Marcel Waldvogel...

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>From: Marcel Waldvogel <mwa@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
>Date: Fri,  9 Aug 96 11:22:42 +0200

>Especially now, with the upcoming compression algorithms (which I'm very  
>much in favor of), this would result in a massive explosion of the number of  
>combined AH-COMP-ESP-transforms. 

Which compression algorithms should be covered?  I myself have thought about
ZLIB, STAC, IBM.  I know of at least one other.  I'm curios if there are
others because I'm trying to think about this in terms of providing
capability for compression history/context or other features,

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