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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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