runez2

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Runez2

Another absolutely awful, but (probably) lossless, compression format for utf-8 text.

This is the successor to the runez archive format.

See the spec for implementation details, or read the source ☺.

Build

; go build

Usage

runez2 [-D] [-c ¦ -d] [input ¦ < input] [output ¦ > output]

Examples

; wc -c mac.txt
3550 mac.txt
; 9 wc -r mac.txt
   1950 mac.txt
; # ^ Number of runes
; ./runez2 < mac.txt > mac.rz2
; wc -c mac.rz2
2030 mac.rz2
; ./runez2 -d < mac.rz2 > newmac.txt
; diff mac.txt newmac.txt
;

References

• runez