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<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Compression |released=≤1988 }} &#039;&#039;&#039;Nova Compress&#039;&#039;&#039; is a file compression utility for DOS, developed by Nova Software of Albuquerq...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=Compression<br /> |released=≤1988<br /> }}<br /> '''Nova Compress''' is a file compression utility for DOS, developed by Nova Software of Albuquerque, NM. It is a component of the ''Nova Utilities'' software collection.<br /> <br /> It doesn't really have a name of its own, other than &quot;Compress&quot;, but we're calling it &quot;Nova Compress&quot;, in part due to its signature bytes.<br /> <br /> According to the documentation, it uses [[Huffman coding]] and/or [[run-length encoding]].<br /> <br /> == Identification ==<br /> Compressed files are observed to start with bytes {{magic|0xfe 0xac}}, followed by ASCII &quot;{{magic|ZNOVACPR}}&quot;. The next character is for the compression method: &quot;&lt;code&gt;B&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;code&gt;H&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, or &quot;&lt;code&gt;R&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.<br /> <br /> == Software ==<br /> * {{CdTextfiles|swinnund/disk2/WORDTEXT/NOVAUT.ZIP|Nova Utilities}} → COMPRESS.EXE - Compresses or decompresses, depending on whether the input file is already compressed.</div>

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