SCO compress LZH

SCO compress LZH refers to a compressed file format that can be created by the SCO Unix version of the  utility, as an alternative to the standard compress format. The LZH format usually has a better compression ratio. The  option must be used to create such files.

The man page says "Portions of this code used for Lempel-Ziv-Huffman encoding were based on Rahul Dhesi's Zoo archiver which was adapted from Haruhiko Okumura's ar archiver".

Identification
Files begin with signature bytes.

Compare to compress (Unix).

Software

 * GNU Gzip
 * Ancient
 * Ancient

Sample files

 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/scoCompress/

Links

 * SCO compress man page