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Re: Universal compression

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Subject Re: Universal compression
Date Wed, 27 Jun 2018 02:56:36 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.compression, Scott <nobody@example.org> wrote:
> Is anyone making progress on a universal compressor? Last I heard, at
> least a couple of folks were on the verge of finally defeating that
> pesky Shannon limit.
> 
> I'll remind everyone that I do in fact have a working compressor that
> can reduce the length of any bitstream by one bit. The decompressor is
> still giving me a bit of trouble, though.

I have a system for shrinking any file of non-zero size. Only gotcha is
the arbitrary filename length requirement is making finding the right
filesystem difficult.

Elijah
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Universal compression nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2018-06-26 20:14 +0000
  Re: Universal compression Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2018-06-26 19:20 -0500
  Re: Universal compression Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-06-27 02:56 +0000
  Re: Universal compression Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2018-06-27 20:07 +0200
    Re: Universal compression nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2018-06-27 20:34 +0000
      Re: Universal compression Providence <psionic81@gmail.com> - 2018-06-28 11:08 -0700

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