huffman-archiver/README.md

Huffman archiver

An archiver that uses Huffman code for compression

Building from source

Prerequisite Tools

• Git
• Go (version 1.17 or later)

1. Install all prerequisite tools
2. Clone this repository

git clone https://ashley.sch9.ru/git/mrfoxygmfr/huffman-archiver

3. Build executable binary

go build -o huffman main.go

Usage

Archiving

To archive a file, use the command

./huffman encode <archive name> <file name>

where <file name> is the name of the file to be compressed, <archive name> is the name of the archive to be created.

Unpacking

To unpack a file, use the command

./huffman decode <archive name> <file name>

where <archive name> is the name of the archive to unpack, <file name> is the name of the file to save.