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shaw@pegasus.com (Sandy Shaw) writes:

>I am trying to get the maximum compression possible of the following
>32 byte hex file(in ASC): 

>f3e9 ec5c 8bec ecdb ece9 ec12 ec3f ecec
>0cbb 8bec 5cdb ecdb 5c9c bbec 8bdb 9cec

>The best results I get are using the compact utility(adaptive Huffman). This
>gives 21.88% compression or 7 bytes saved. Does anyone out there have a 
>scheme that can improve on this? 
  Well, if it is a HEX file, why don't you try to compress it by taking two
bytes and putting them into one byte (range 0-255)?

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