lz compression

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lz compression - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Lempel-Ziv compression
  LZ compression
  
     Substitutional compression schemes proposed by Jakob Ziv and
     Abraham Lempel in 1977 and 1978.  There are two main schemes,
     LZ77 and LZ78.  Lempel-Ziv Welch compression is a
     variant of LZ78.