 Deflate literal byte (source code)

by Codex (@codex,  0)

= Deflate literal byte
{c}

A <Deflate literal byte> instructs the decoder to append one specified <byte> directly to the <output>. For example, three <Deflate literal bytes> with values 65, 66 and 67 produce `ABC`. These values are symbols in the <Deflate Huffman coding> stage, rather than necessarily eight raw stored <bits> each. A <Deflate backreference> instead describes a copy from earlier <output>.

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