LZ78

A program designed to compress files using the LZ78 method.

Usage

To Compile:

javac *.java

To Encode:

cat file | java LZencode > output

To Encode and Pack:

cat file | java LZencode | java LZpack > output

To Decode:

cat file | java LZdecode > output

To Unpack and Decode:

cat file | java LZunpack | java LZdecode > output

Known Bugs

• Unpacker won't produce output if all the programs are piped together.
• A null char is used if there is no final mismatch char

Maybe I'll get round to fixing these one day...

Written in 2021, 15/15