gzip-like LZSS compressor

A toy implementation of a simple gzip-like LZSS text compressor written in Nim. This project is part of the compressor course at the Paris-East Marne-la-Vallée university.

Test and build

Building this project requires Nim and Nimble version 0.19.0 or later.

nimble build produces a binary named gziplike
nimble test runs the included unit tests

Usage

Usage: gziplike <compress|decompress> <input file> <output file>

Compression and decompression are done using the compress and decompress commands repsectively.

Paths to the input and output files are given as second and third arguments respectively.

License

This project is distributed under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, as detailed in the provided license.md file.