This is a implementation of the dynamic Huffman coding algorithm presented
by Jeffrey Scott Vitter in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
Vol, 15, June 1989, p 158, and described in Journal of the ACM, Vol. 34,
October 1987, p 825.

The algorithm is implemented in the context of a stand-alone file
compression utility, which can be used to compress/decompress files
one at a time. This program serves only to illustrate the use of
the algorithm.


Douglas P. Webb
dwebb@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

