I get where you are coming from and yet when I was introduced to LZW I wasn't that interested and yet by the end it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. By ha

I get where you are coming from and yet when I was introduced to LZW I wasn't that interested and yet by the end it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. By having control over the entire input and output stream you can embed within that the very properties you are trying to achieve. That was a game changer.