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From: michael j darweesh
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:32

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Mark Nelson: The Data Compression Book,
ISBN (w/o IBM src disk): 1-55851-214-4 $26.95
	(w/ IBM src disk): 1-55851-216-0 $36.95

Very good book. The source code is in C and even a beginner can understand the
theories AND the C code (High level language exp. helps, but not nec.).
Main Topic List:
Data Compression History + Lexicon
Minimum Redundancy Coding (Huffman Coding, Shannon-Fano Alg)
Adaptive Huffman Coding
Arithmetic Coding (great stuff!)
Statistical Modeling
Dictionary-Based Compression
Sliding Window Compression (Lempel-Ziv 77 + LZSS)
Lempel-Ziv 78 + LZW
Speech Compression (lossless and lossy)
Lossy Graphics Compression (JPEG + DCT)
An Archiving package example (PC based)
There is some mention of patents in this book, but it isn't a good source
for that type of info.

There's lots-o-code and plenty of tables comparing performances.
The Bibliography and Afterward are even good.

The Data Compression Book is a must for every boy and girl who wants to
learn compression.

Enjoy,

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