Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] putBits
Date: Sunday, 01 Nov 2020, 08:02:39

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > How do we use the function putBits if we have a string of integer code?
    > What value should we use for nBits?

As stated in the specification:

  encode writes each code using the smallest number of bits required to specify
  valid codes at the time (e.g., 9 bits when there are 512 valid codes, but 10
  bits once the next code is assigned), up to a maximum of 12 bits (or MAXBITS if
  the -m MAXBITS option is specified).  ...

NBITS is that smallest number of bits.

--Stan-