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Ent
This page describes a program, ent, which applies various tests to sequences of bytes stored in files and reports the results of those tests. The program is useful for those evaluating pseudorandom number generators for encryption and statistical sampling applications, compression algorithms, and other applications where the information density of a file is of interest
http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/CoffeeCup Free Zip Wizard
Your basic free zip program. Includes the normal archiving functions, plus some search, email, and ftp options as well.
Version 2.5 is shipping as of June, 2004.
http://www.coffeecup.com/zip-wizard/An Image Decoder Based on IImgCtx
This article shows how to decode images with IImgCtx interface provided by IE. In addition to the image types decoded with the IPictur einterface, IImgCtx also decodes TIFF and PNG.
http://codeproject.com/bitmap/JianImgCtxDecoder.aspPE Compression Test
A nice set of tests comparing a wide variety of executable packers.
http://pect.y11.net/flac2ogg
A perl script to convert FLAC or Shorten files to Ogg Vorbis.
http://home.mchsi.com/~stateq2/flac2ogg.htmlMP3 To WAV Converter
MP3 To WAV Converter is designed for converting MP3 to WAV and converting WAV to MP3. It converts batches of MP3 to WAV or WAV to MP3 on-the-fly. Play MP3/WAV files, edit Mp3 file’s ID3 text, and search MP3 or WAV files from a folder or the whole disk.
http://www.mp3-to-wav-converter.com/Huffman Coding Class
This version of file encoder and decoder program is based on the Huffman coding method. It explicitly demonstrates the details of the files during the encoding and decoding. The algorithm is encapsulated in a class En_Decode in standard C++.
http://codeproject.com/cpp/HandyHuffmanCoding.aspLZW Compression
An article that describes itself as showing how to implement LZW compression in MFC.
http://codeproject.com/cpp/LZWCompression.asp