https://github.com/nating/compressor
💱 Compressing files using Huffman Coding. 🌲
https://github.com/nating/compressor
compressed-files encoding huffman-compression-algorithm huffman-tree
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💱 Compressing files using Huffman Coding. 🌲
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/nating/compressor
- Owner: nating
- Created: 2016-11-02T23:01:04.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-01-14T22:27:11.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-02T10:46:18.436Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: compressed-files, encoding, huffman-compression-algorithm, huffman-tree
- Language: C
- Homepage:
- Size: 398 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# compressor
A program to compress files using Huffman Coding.
## About
This program takes a training file to learn the frequency of different characters in the language of your text files.
It uses the frequency of characters in your training file to create a huffman tree which acts as a cipher when encoding or decoding your text files.
The example files given show how the test_source.txt can be compressed with the program from 440KB to 246KB.
The training_file.txt given is a free Frankenstein ebook from http://www.gutenberg.org. The frequency of characters in this text file will make a huffman tree that will compress any English text file quite efficiently.
## Usage
To encode a file:
`./compressor huffcode `
To decode a file:
`./compressor huffdecode `