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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2003 17:20:54 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Luis Rueda <lrueda@uwindsor.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Compact utility
Message-ID:  <20030703002054.GF83261@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <059401c340ab$12e13440$538ccf89@cspc1.uwindsor.ca>
References:  <059401c340ab$12e13440$538ccf89@cspc1.uwindsor.ca>

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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:02:52AM -0400, Luis Rueda wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I would like to know where I can download the "compact" utility for OpenB=
SD unix. The one that I am looking for is the compression utility that impl=
ements the adaptive Huffman coding.
> Any help on this will be greatly appreciated!

FreeBSD is not OpenBSD.  Try asking on an OpenBSD support forum.

However, do you really want adaptive Huffman encoding specifically?
The compress(1) manpage suggests it is inferior even to the
compression algorithm used by compress, which is itself substantially
inferior to other modern compression algorithms.

Kris
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