/compress

A simple compressor implementing LZW for educational purpose

Primary LanguageC++

compress

A simple compressor implementing LZW for educational purpose. This program is compliant to compress tool on Linux which means that we can use compress to decompress files generated from this program.

Usage

  • Build code with make
  • Compress a file by ./uvcompress < inputfile > inputfile.z
  • Optional: Decompress the above ouput with compress by compresss -d < inputfile.z > inputfile