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   On 2019-03-30 16:03:02 +0000, Richard Menedetter -> Ozz Nixon said:   
      
   > Hi Ozz!   
   >   
   > 28 Mar 2019 13:37, from Ozz Nixon -> Ozz Nixon:   
   >   
   >   ON> Anyone know what the name of the ASCII compression algorithm that is   
   >   ON> based upon 6bit ASCII and most frequently used characters?   
   >   
   > No.   
   > What use would it be?   
      
   Actually it is *very* useful in the 7bit ASCII world of Fidonet messages. Or   
   other #32..#127 character based strings. There are 2 I have looked at - the   
   algorithm I already have beats shoci, the other is called smaz (which beats   
   this algorithm). I am porting smaz to Pascal, however, the algorithm I have is   
   very simple to read and understand - whereas, smaz is doing post compression   
   matching of common patterns to make it even smaller output.   
      
   I am just curious if anyone knows what the heck this algorithm is called. I   
   found it and used it in my tosser in 1994 - thus where I came across it   
   recently.   
      
   If you google compression etaonirshdl you will find someone has ported it to   
   Delphi. I found this with a 1996 copyright on it: https://github   
   com/dblock/xreplace/blob/master/Classes/XReplace/lzh.pas - which is not LZH in   
   any way.   
      
   What use would it be? Simple storage compression in JAM for my NNTP Server I   
   wrote (working on the web interface now). MODE STREAM from machine to machine   
   in real-time - simple compressions like these can be much more efficient than   
   dictionary based algorithms, and much smaller memory footprint - when   
   streaming millions of messages a day from usenet -> my server in AZ -> my   
   server in TX (and) -> to my server in VA which is moving to FL in 14wks +/-.   
      
   Ozz   
      
      
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