Managing Gigabytes

The second edition of Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell, is now available (May 1999), published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, San Francisco, ISBN 1-55860-570-3.

Information available:

• Publicity brochure for the second edition (PDF file, 15kB)

• Table of contents of the second edition

• Preface to the second edition

• Errata listing for the second edition

• Buy the second edition from Amazon.com
  (Yes, we will receive a small cut from Amazon if you use this link and make a purchase).

• Morgan Kaufmann catalog entry

• The current version of the software, mg-1.2.1, dated August 1999

• Reviews of the first edition (published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1994)

• Publication details for the first edition

• Old versions of the software
  (these used to be held in ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/mg; that site is now defunct)

• Just want to search text, and don't want a full-blown indexer? Take a look at seft, a Search Engine for Text: abstract of paper, software.

(Thanks to Art Pollard for the author photograph above).

Links to Other Information

The URL's that are mentioned in the book are available here.

The Arithmetic Coding routines mentioned in Chapter 2, and the compression programs char, word, and bits, are available from http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~alistair/arith_coder/.