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Data compression using long common strings


Author(s) : Douglas Mcilroy Jon Bentley, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1999
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : White [1967] proposed compressing text by replacing [a] repeated string by a reference to [an] earlier occurrence. Ziv and Lempel [1977, 1978] implemented this idea by cleverly representing strings that occur in a relatively small sliding window. We extend the basic idea to represent long common strings that may appear far apart in the,