Sujet : Re: ASCII to ASCII compression.
De : malcolm.arthur.mclean (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Malcolm McLean)
Groupes : comp.lang.cDate : 06. Jun 2024, 21:02:56
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On 06/06/2024 17:55, bart wrote:
On 06/06/2024 17:25, Malcolm McLean wrote:
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Not strictly a C programming question, but smart people will see the relavance to the topicality, which is portability.
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Is there a compresiion algorthim which converts human language ASCII text to compressed ASCII, preferably only "isgraph" characters?
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So "Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow".
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Would become
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QWE£$543GtT£$"||x|VVBB?
What's the problem with compressing to binary (using existing, efficient utilities), then turning that binary into ASCII (like Mime or Base64)?
Because if a single bit flips in a zip archive, it's likely the entire archive will be lost. This scheme is robust. We can emed compressed text in programs, and if it is corruped, only a single line will become unreadable.
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ASCII to ASCII compression.
Re: ASCII to ASCII compression.