karimkohel / DCW

The DCW stands for Damn Compression Wizard and is basically what it sounds like, a compression app that can compress a text file using Huffman Code (Lossless))

DCW 1.0

Welcome to the DCW documentation. The DCW is a lossless compression command line tool for text files. The tool is in it's early stages, please feel free to report any bugs to the github Issues page.

Contents

• Usage
  • Default
  • More Usage

Usage

Default condition

The tool supports a default user friendly running condition if no command line arguments are provided and to make it easier and faster in testing, by just running the tool like so

./DCW

• Takes in a default input file by the name input.txt
• generates the output files required later for decompression

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Specific Usage

To correctly use the tool to the full of it's extent command line arguments are provided to specify which file to compress/decompress.

./DCW <option> <input filename.txt> <compressed filename>

or

./DCW <option> <compressed filename> <output filename.txt>

Option	Description
-c	Compress
-d	Decompress

• The tool will generate the decompressed/compressed file in the same directory
• more than one file will be generated, all files must be kept for later use in decompression

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