File compression utility
File compression utility

Well, with all this discussion about file compression (for news batching
in particular) going around, I decided to implement the text compression
algorithm described in the June Computer magazine.  The author claimed
blinding speed and good compression ratios.  It's certainly faster than
compact (but, then, what wouldn't be), but it's also the same speed as
pack, and gets better compression than both of them.  On 350K bytes of
unix-wizards, compact took about 8 minutes of CPU, pack took about 80
seconds, and compress (herein) also took 80 seconds.  But, compact and
pack got about 30% compression, whereas compress got over 50%.  So, I
decided I had something, and that others might be interested, too.

valgur/ncompress,valgur/ncompress