File Compression Application

Summary

The application is created in Ruby and its purpose is for compressing and decompressing text files. This is done by using Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv loseless data compression algorithm in 1977, which is a dictionary coder and also is a sliding window algorithm.

Installion

git clone https://github.com/jasonkwok/File-Compression.git

Usage

Simple as

make squeeze file={file path}
to compress, which will output a compressed.txt file

and

make expand file={file path}
to decompress, which will output a decompressed.txt file