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    SLUG - Copyright (c) 2007-2008 by Christian Martelock
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Slug is a FREE file-to-file compressor focusing on ultra fast,
but still nice compression. You use it at your OWN risk.

Since version 1.2+ Slug does not use LZ77 anymore, but a dis-
tant variation of reduced-offset-LZ (aka ROLZ). Besides its 
ROLZ-nature, Slug employs an order-0 semi-dynamic huffman coder. 
The huffman-tree gets rebuilt every ~4K symbols with smaller 
steps at the beginning of a file.  Slug uses a non-sliding 
window of 8M which enables its ROLZ-engine to gear up.

The tool is designed in pure C++ using GCC as a compiler. All 
ROLZ-versions are around two times slower than their LZ77 parts.
Still, Slug is a couple of times faster than good old ZIP while 
providing similar compression most of the time. On small files 
Slug does not perform as good as e.g. ZIP.

If you find this tool useful, have any questions/suggestion or
found a bug then please send me a note.




Slug's homepage: http://christian.martelock.googlepages.com/index.htm
Contact:         mailto:christian.martelock@web.de




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 Changelog
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1.27b
-refined modeling -> better compression
1.27
-internal changes
-switched to WIN32-IO-API
-changed data format (reduced frame information)
