Re: OOTW "secret message"

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <72mz03jBd9AI00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:

>That's because it was compressed with LZSS.  Try compressing a text file
>with lots of proper nouns and unusual words with HardPressed and try to
>read it.  You'll get the first few okay, but it gradually deteriorates, with
>the occasional readable fragment.

Ahh, that's true.  I just recently read how LZ* compressors work, and that 
certainly makes sense.  I don't yet own HP to try that with, but I do have
some private shell utilities that compress/decompress LZSS which are used for
GS<>IRC stuff, so I'll do some experimenting :)


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