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2025 Report: Destructive Malware in Open Source Packages
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apple-data-compression
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The Apple Data Compression (ADC) scheme relies on both run-length encoding and pointing to data in a sliding dictionary.
$ npm install --save apple-data-compression
var adc = require( 'apple-data-compression' )
var result = adc.decompress( buffer )
var transform = new adc.Decompressor()
// OR var transform = adc.createDecompress()
fs.createReadStream( filename )
.pipe( transform )
.on( 'data', ( chunk ) => {
// ...
})
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Apple Data Compression (ADC) Scheme
The npm package apple-data-compression receives a total of 3,085 weekly downloads. As such, apple-data-compression popularity was classified as popular.
We found that apple-data-compression demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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