gzip-like LZSS compressor
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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
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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
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```
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
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Copyright (C) 2018 Pacien TRAN-GIRARD.

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