This is a comment on “File Archival Techniques Using Data Compression” by Michael Pechura [Communications, Sept. 1982, p. 605]. We approached the data compression problem with the aim of maximizing the saving in archival storage over all files for which archival storage was necessary. We also wanted a routine which was reasonably economic in use of system resource.
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