The data compression book
by Nelson, Mark · first published 1991
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Years back, there was a very good book called something like The Data Compression Book by, IIRC, a Mark Nelson. Explained many compression schemes including *zip, with working code in C. I had it, read it early in my career, could understand parts of it. A testimonial to the book, not…
on “Dissecting the Gzip Format (2011)” ↗…in TopSpeed Modula-2 and run from the command line. Needed to span multiple disks and self launch. Algorithm was fast, but not nearly the same compression ratios. Wore out Mark Nelson's classic, "The Data Compression Book" along the way.
on “Pack: A new container format for compressed files” ↗If any of you interested in more details on compression, and in use, take a look at "Bit-mapped graphics" by Steve Rimmer and "The data compression book" by Mark Nelson.
on “Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms” ↗"The Data Compression Book" by Mark Nelson has a good explanations of some basic techniques - and examples of C implementations of them.
on “Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms” ↗