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See the files

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config.doc documentation of some compile time parameters
rs.doc overview of the Reed-Solomon coding program
rs.man a man page, slightly outdated at this point
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Henry Minsky
[email protected]

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Hi. The RSCODE project is an implementation of a Reed-Solomon error correction algorithm. Error correcting codes are marvelous jewels of mathematics and algorithms, providing an almost supernatural ability to recover good data from a corrupted channel.
This implementation of the Reed-Solomon codes provide convenient 'byte-sized' block coding which is convenient for adding protection to data which is stored as eight-bit bytes (i.e., most common computer data).
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* (c) Henry Minsky ([email protected]) 1991-2009
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* This software library is licensed under terms of the GNU GENERAL
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* contact author for details.
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* Source code is available at http://rscode.sourceforge.net
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