Paul, V. J.2015-10-162015-10-161976http://hdl.handle.net/10092/11203Text compression is the activity of taking a file of text and subjecting it to a compaction process to reduce its storage requirements. Text compression is of interest because of the many applications involving the storing of large amounts of text. No matter how much secondary storage is available it is still expensive and invariably there are other requirements for its use.enCopyright V. J. PaulDiscussion / Working PapersField of Research::08 - Information and Computing Sciences