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INFORMATIONAL

Author:

P. Deutsch

Stream:

[Legacy]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC1951

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Abstract

This specification defines a lossless compressed data format that compresses data using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding, with efficiency comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.