[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #6757: Add lzw_compressor and lzw_decompressor filters

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #6757: Add lzw_compressor and lzw_decompressor filters
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-01 19:00:11

#6757: Add lzw_compressor and lzw_decompressor filters
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 Reporter:  dtrebbien@…          |       Owner:  turkanis      
     Type:  Feature Requests     |      Status:  new           
Milestone:  To Be Determined     |   Component:  iostreams     
  Version:  Boost 1.49.0         |    Severity:  Not Applicable
 Keywords:                       |  
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 Boost.IOstreams has support for BZ2, GZIP, and DEFLATE
 compression/decompression.  To be able to read output from the POSIX-
 standard `compress` utility, it would be nice if the library also
 supported compression and decompression with the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW)
 algorithm.

 Here are some LZW implementations that might be of use:

 * [http://marknelson.us/2011/11/08/lzw-revisited/ LZW Revisited] by Mark
 Nelson
 * [http://michael.dipperstein.com/lzw/ Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) Encoding
 Discussion and Implementation] by Michael Dipperstein
 * [http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/src/lzw

 libfreetype2's LZW support]
 * [http://rosettacode.org/wiki/LZW_compression LZW compression] on Rosetta
 Code

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