Welcome to the DCW documentation. The DCW is a lossless compression command line tool for text files. The tool is in it's early stages, please feel free to report any bugs to the github Issues page.
The tool supports a default user friendly running condition if no command line arguments are provided and to make it easier and faster in testing, by just running the tool like so
./DCW
- Takes in a default input file by the name input.txt
- generates the output files required later for decompression
To correctly use the tool to the full of it's extent command line arguments are provided to specify which file to compress/decompress.
./DCW <option> <input filename.txt> <compressed filename>
or
./DCW <option> <compressed filename> <output filename.txt>
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| -c | Compress |
| -d | Decompress |
- The tool will generate the decompressed/compressed file in the same directory
- more than one file will be generated, all files must be kept for later use in decompression