![]() ![]() The many definitions found in dictionaries and reference books vary widely and do more to confuse than to illuminate the reader. What makes a book a handbook? What is the difference between a textbook and a handbook? It turns out that “handbook” is one of the many terms that elude precise definition. G Instead, its title indicates that this is a handbook of data compression. The thick, heavy volume you are holding in your hands was intended to be the fifth edition of Data Compression: The Complete Reference. Preface to the New Handbook entle Reader. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science Business Media (To users of data compression everywhere The publisher makes no representation, express or implied, with regard to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc., in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. ISBN 978-1-84882-902-2 e-ISBN 978-1-84882-903-9 DOI 10.1007/10.1007/978-1-84882-903-9 Springer London Dordrecht Heidelberg New York British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2009936315 c Springer-Verlag London Limited 2010 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Giovanni Motta Personal Systems Group, Mobility Solutions Hewlett-Packard Corp. ![]() California State University, Northridge Northridge, CA 91330-8281 USA ĭr. David Salomon (emeritus) Computer Science Dept. ![]() Handbook of Data Compression Fifth Edition Previous editions published under the title “Data Compression: The Complete Reference” Up to date sources are available in peazip-sources Git directory, and snapshots of the source code at each x.y.z release are available in Releases as peazip-x.y.z.src.zip packages, with (featured both in Git and in source packages) containing detailed instructions for compiling the application and building packages for different systems.Handbook of Data Compression Fifth Editionĭavid Salomon Giovanni Motta With Contributions by David Bryant The program is written in Lazarus/FreePascal (Windows installable packages are scripted with InnoSetup, with Pascal-like syntax) and offers a LGPLv3 alternative to proprietary software (WinZip, WinRar, etc), running as native application on Windows/Win64, Wine/ReactOS, Linux x86/x86-64 (with Linux ARM and BSD ports also available), and Darwin/macOS both Intel x86_64 and aarch64 (e.g. The project aims to provide a cross-platform, portable, GUI frontend for multiple Open Source technologies (7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, UPX, Brotli, Zstd) focused on file and archive management, and security (strong encryption, two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure delete). PeaZip is a free file archiver utility and rar extractor for Linux, macOS, and Windows, which works with 200 archive types and variants (7z, ace, arc, bz2, cab, gz, iso, paq, pea, rar, tar, wim, zip, zipx.), handles spanned archives (001, r01, z01.), supports multiple archive encryption standards, file hashing, exports tasks as console scripts. ![]()
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