[Savannah-register-public] [task #6840] Submission of humanzip

[Matthew Strait]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?6840>

                 Summary: Submission of humanzip
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: straitm
            Submitted on: Wednesday 05/02/2007 at 05:31
         Should Start On: Wednesday 05/02/2007 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Saturday 05/12/2007 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=9269> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=9269>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *humanzip*
* System Name:  *humanzip*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License V2 or later

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==== Description: ====
humanzip is a compression program that operates on text files.  Unlike most
compression algorithms, its output is human readable.  Indeed, it is
explictly meant to be read by humans and might even be easier to read than
the original.

humanzip compresses files by looking for common strings of words and
replacing them with single symbols. The idea is to reduce the screen and
print size of documents.  It does not explictly try to reduce the size of the
file as measured in bytes, although this usually happens incidentally.  For
instance, a part of a file that looks like this:

        This is a test, please panic.
        This is a test, hide under your desk.
        This is a test, close the curtains.

might be converted to:

        Å, please panic.
        Å, hide under your desk.
        Å, close the curtains.

A key is included at the top of the compressed file.  It is always given with
lines like "å/Å - this is a test", where å represents "this is a test" and
Å represents "This is a test".

Most files are reduced 5-15%.  humanunzip restores files exactly to their
original state.

A functional version can be found at
http://webusers.physics.umn.edu/~strait/humanzip/


==== Other Software Required: ====
None.






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