October 1992/A Simple Data-Compression Technique/Table 1

Table 1 Format of Compression Codes

Code Type      Byte 1             Byte 2       Byte 3
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Short RLE      0 | Count          Character    (not used)
Long RLE       1 | Low Count      High Count   Character
Long Pattern   2 | Low Offset     High Offset  Count
Short Pattern  3-15 | Low Offset  High Offset  (not used)