
Further reference:
1) The 3-part FAQs for the comp.compression newsgroups by Jean-loup Gailly ...
   (Part I: practical usage  -  Part II: how compression works) ...
   Read them on news.answers or get them from rtfm.mit.edu
   (in /pub/usenet/news.answers/compression-faq) or from garbo (as
   /pc/doc-net/faqc9304.zip) ...

2) Get the file  compression  from ftp.cso.uiuc.edu (in /doc/pcnet) ...
   Maintained by David Lemson, this file has additional info on different
   compression/decompression programs for many different operating systems.

3) If you're familiar with C programming, the book "The Data Compression Book"
   (written by Mark Nelson and published by M&T) should enable you to have a
   good understanding on different compression techniques.
