Subject: RFP: PPMZ2 -- A Prediction by Partial Match (PPM) compressor (archiver) Package: wnpp Version N/A; reported 2003-02-04 Severity: wishlist
* Package name : ppmz2 Version: 0.8 Upstream Author : "Charles Bloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cbloom.com/src/ppmz.html * License : BPL ( http://www.cbloom.com/bpl.txt ) Description: PPM (Prediction by Partial Match) is a classic compression algorithm. PPM predicts the probability of a given character based on the characters that immediately precede it (see also Markov Chains and Context Modeling). PPMZ is an efficient version of PPM that uses. PPMZ2 is Charles Bloom's (the author of PPMZ) next version of PPMZ. This archiver should be better than gzip, bzip2, and zip at compressing files. Notes: Discussion on debian-legal about the BPL license is at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200301/msg00196.html and http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200301/msg00219.html A Linux version of PPMZ is linked to off of the web page for this program.
