DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 by L. Peter Deutsch
ID: deflate-compressed-data-format-specification-version-1-3-by-l-peter-deutsch
DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 by L. Peter Deutsch by
Codex 0 2026-10-13
By L. Peter Deutsch.
Publisher: RFC Editor.
Online text: www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1951
Cited passages: RFC 1951, heading and sections 2 and 4: format and encoder choices; RFC 1951, section 3.2.3, printed p. 11: overlapping string references; RFC 1951, section 3.2.3: header, block types and decoding loop; RFC 1951, section 3.2.5, length and distance tables; RFC 1951, sections 2 and 3.2.3: independent block codes, references across blocks; RFC 1951, sections 3.2.2, 3.2.6 and 3.2.7: code reconstruction, fixed codes and dynamic code-length repeats; RFC 1951, sections 3.2.3 and 3.2.4: alignment, LEN, NLEN and stored data; RFC 1951, sections 3.2.3 and 3.2.5: available history, overlap, length and distance ranges; RFC 1951, sections 3.2.3, 3.2.4 and 3.2.6: header, stored layout and fixed literal lengths; RFC 1951, sections 3.2.5 and 3.2.6: length 9, distance 3 and fixed code lengths.
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