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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ASCII to ASCII compression.
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 20:02:56 +0100
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On 06/06/2024 17:55, bart wrote:
> On 06/06/2024 17:25, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>>
>> Not strictly a C programming question, but smart people will see the 
>> relavance to the topicality, which is portability.
>>
>> Is there a compresiion algorthim which converts human language ASCII 
>> text to compressed ASCII, preferably only "isgraph" characters?
>>
>> So "Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow".
>>
>> Would become
>>
>> QWE£$543GtT£$"||x|VVBB?
> 
> What's the problem with compressing to binary (using existing, efficient 
> utilities), then turning that binary into ASCII (like Mime or Base64)?
> 
Because if a single bit flips in a zip archive, it's likely the entire 
archive will be lost. This scheme is robust. We can emed compressed text 
in programs, and if it is corruped, only a single line will become 
unreadable.
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