Adaptive Huffman Coding Compressor "huff"

Build Instructions

To make the executable, navigate to the root directory of the project and run:

• cmake .
• If all's well, then after that run make

This should generate the executable file huff.

Usage

huff [--puff] [-h|--help] <input-file> <output-file>
<input-file>    the file treated as input
<output-file>   the file treated as output (will be overwritten if already exists)
--puff          Tells huff to decompress the input file. Huff will compress files by default.
-h|--help       Print this usage message.
-r|--report     Produce a report at the end, detailing the level of compression achieved, most common symbol etc..