Bug#161621: ITP: cl-inflate -- Common Lisp module to decompress a gzip, winzip, or jar file
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-09-20
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : cl-inflate
Version : x.y.z
Upstream Author : John Federaro <jkf@franz.com>
* 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
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