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Data compression on a database system

A general-purpose data-compression routine—implemented on the IMS database system—makes use of context to achieve better compression than Huffman's method applied character by character. It demonstrates that a wide variety of data can be compressed effectively using a single, fixed compression routine with almost no working storage.

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