Compact utility

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:02:52AM -0400, Luis Rueda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know where I can download the "compact" utility for OpenBSD unix. The one that I am looking for is the compression utility that implements 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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