I've had this assignment over my head for months. I didn't finish it on time for one of my classes, so I pretty much abandoned it- planning to come back to it after the semester and get things working ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I'm working on a LZW compression assignment in Java. For compression, I start with the initial dictionary of all the ascii characters so 0 - 255 are stored as codes.<BR><BR>However, once I ...