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compact(1)							    compact(1)

NAME
       compact, uncompact, ccat - compact and uncompact files, and cat them

SYNOPSIS
       [sfile] ...

       [cfile] ...

       [cfile] ...

DESCRIPTION
       compresses  the named files using an adaptive Huffman code.  If no file
       names are given, standard input is compacted and sent to	 the  standard
       output.	 operates  as an on-line algorithm.  Each time a byte is read,
       it is encoded immediately according to the current prefix  code.	  This
       code is an optimal Huffman code for the set of frequencies seen so far.
       It is unnecessary to attach a decoding tree in front of the  compressed
       file  because  the  encoder and the decoder start in the same state and
       stay synchronized.  Furthermore, and can operate as filters.   In  par‐
       ticular,

       operates as a (very slow) no-op.

       When  an argument file is given, it is compacted, the resulting file is
       placed in and file is unlinked.	The first two bytes of	the  compacted
       file code the fact that the file is compacted.  These bytes are used to
       prohibit recompaction.

       The amount of compression to be expected depends on the	type  of  file
       being  compressed.   Typical  file  size reduction (in percent) through
       compression are: Text, 38%; Pascal Source,  43%;	 C  Source,  36%;  and
       Binary, 19%.

       restores	 the  original file from a file compressed by If no file names
       are specified, standard input is uncompacted and sent to	 the  standard
       output.

       writes  the specified c_file, compressed by to standard output, without
       uncompressing the file.

   Operands
       The commands recognize the following operands:

	      cfile	Compacted file.

	      sfile	Source file to compact or uncompact.  If no file names
			are given, the commands use standard input and sent to
			the standard output.  places the compacted file in

   Access Control Lists (ACLs)
       On systems that implement access control lists, when a new file is cre‐
       ated  with  the effective user and group ID of the caller, the original
       file's ACL is copied to the new file after being altered to reflect any
       change  in  ownership  (see  acl(5) and aclv(5)).  In JFS file systems,
       files created by or do not inherit their parent directory's default ACL
       entries	(if any), but instead retain their original ACLs.  When a file
       being compacted or uncompacted resides on a JFS file  system,  and  the
       compacted  or  uncompacted  file resides on an HFS file system (or vice
       versa), as the result of or the use of or as  a	filter,	 optional  ACL
       entries are lost.

WARNINGS
       On short-file-name systems, the last segment of the file name must con‐
       tain 12 or fewer characters to allow space for the appended

DEPENDENCIES
   NFS
       Access control list entries  of	networked  files  are  summarized  (as
       returned in by but not copied to the new file (see stat(2)).

AUTHOR
       was developed by Colin L. Mc Master.

FILES
       compacted file created by compact, removed by uncompact

SEE ALSO
       compress(1), pack(1), acl(5), aclv(5).

       Gallager,  Robert  G.,  "Variations on a Theme of Huffman," vol. IT-24,
       no. 6, November 1978, pp. 668 - 674.

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