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P. Deutsch

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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 ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.