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+"À-la-gzip" LZSS compressor
+===========================
+
+A toy implementation of a simple gzip-like LZSS text compressor written in Nim.
+This project is part of the compressor course at the Paris-East Marne-la-Vallée university.
+
+
+Test and build
+--------------
+
+Building this project requires Nim and Nimble version 0.19.0 or later.
+
+* `nimble build` produces a binary named `main`
+* `nimble test` runs the included unit tests
+
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Compression and decompression are done using the `compress` and `decompress` commands repsectively.
+
+The input stream is read from the standard input.
+The result is outputted to the standard output.
+
+
+License
+-------
+
+Copyright (C) 2018 Pacien TRAN-GIRARD.
+
+This project is distributed under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, as detailed in the provided `license.md` file.
+