The client and server in this directory can be used to evaluate the
performance of protocol compression for various types of input data.

To use the programs, start the server:

$ ./server

In a separate window, start the client and pass it the name of a
file to send:

$ ./client datafile

The article uses The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin as its input
data. You can download the full text of that book here:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Fra2Aut.html