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.

Identification
Files begin with signature bytes.

Compare to compress.

Software

 * GNU gzip can decompress the format.

Links

 * SCO compress man page

Editors' notes
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".

Gzip says "The code in this file is directly derived from the public domain 'ar002' written by Haruhiko Okumura."

Note that Haruhiko Okumura was also involved in the development of LHArc.

Possibly-relevant software:
 * ar002
 * https://github.com/WWelna/lzh-improved