The <b>LZSS</b> program implements a turbo pascal wrapper I've placed
around a very nice (and fast) implementation of the LZ77 algorithm
submitted to the DR DOBBS compression contest a few years back by
Andy Tam.

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.

It should be noted that the plain LZ77 algorithm is unpatented,
so using this code in a commercial application should be OK.

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