Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-09-20 Severity: wishlist * Package name : cl-inflate Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : John Federaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.some.org/ * License : LGPL Description : Common Lisp module to decompress a gzip, winzip, or jar file
Deflation is a means of compressing an octet sequence that combines the LZ77 algorithm for marking common substrings and Huffman coding to take advantage of the different frequencies of occurance of byte sequences in the file. This algorithm may not be as easy to understand or as efficient as the LZW compression algorithm but Deflate does have the important advantage in that it is not patented. Thus Deflate widely used. Presently it's the most common compression method used by Windows Zip programs (e.g. Winzip) and in the Unix gzip program. Java jar files, being just zip files, also use this compression method. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tiger 2.4.19 #1 SMP Sat Aug 3 10:05:27 MDT 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
