CODEC

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

Application developed as workpaper for the Information Theory class.
University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil/Rio Grande do Sul

This application provides support to:
	* Encode and decode files
	* Add and remove noise treatment

Supported encoding types:
	* Binary
	* Delta
	* Eliasgamma
	* Fibonacci
	* Golomb
	* Unary

Supported noise treatment:
	* CRC-8

LANGUAGE USED:

JAVA (JDK 15.0.2.7)

HOW TO RUN:

* Go to DOS prompt.
* Go to the directory where the .jar (codec.jar) file is 
  stored.
* In that directory run the .jar file.
* Further information can be accessed inside the program
  by using the command <help>.

    Example:  
	Go to the directory
	c:\>cd Desktop
	c:\Desktop>java -jar codec.jar
	
	The application will open inside DOS prompt`

ADDITIONAL INFO:

The application works best with UTF-8 charset, files
with different charsets will probably have issues in the output.