problems decompressing files

[Dar Scott]

On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:12 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> 1,0,0,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0 
> ,
> 0,1,

That is worth a try, but it might not work.  The in-a-row compression  
works on multi-char repeats, too, and if the problem is with that this  
might not work.

I'd include that in tinkering.

I have also tried "training strings" in cases where the compression is  
under control of the decompression.  The idea is to prepend some magic  
string, compress and then later decompress and remove the string.  So  
far this does not work.  I suspect this is because in-a-row compression  
is done before the entropy encoding.

Dar