/yZip

Compression algorithm relying on Huffman encoding

Primary LanguagePython

yZip

A experimental algorithm that uses Huffman encoding to compress text files. Compressed file can be around 53% of the original size.

Guide

Just run

$ yzip --help

in order to know how to use yZip. Only file-to-file (de)compression is allowed with the '-f'(input) and '-o' (output) arguments.

Example usage

Compressing a file

$ yzip -f original -o compressed

Decompressing a file

$ yzip -d -f compressed -o original