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Effect2: Added released (from man page)

2019-11-26T08:31:04Z

Added released (from man page)

Jsummers at 21:48, 25 October 2013

2013-10-25T21:48:15Z

Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |subcat=Archiving }} '''rzip''' is an archiving format (implemented for Unix-style operating systems) that achieves better compression than other formats by taki..."

2013-02-17T19:36:18Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |subcat=Archiving }} '''rzip''' is an archiving format (implemented for Unix-style operating systems) that achieves better compression than other formats by taki..."

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'''rzip''' is an archiving format (implemented for Unix-style operating systems) that achieves better compression than other formats by taking advantage of long-distance redundancies in the full data set being compressed. Due to its need to analyze the data set as a whole before compressing any of it, it is unable to work with a "piped" data stream (as opposed to a set of disk files), and requires a large amount of memory and a slow, multi-pass algorithm.

There does not appear to be any written-up detailed documentation of the file format in any public place, but the program is open-source, allowing enterprising geeks to figure out the format by studying the code.

[[lrzip]] is an improved archiving format adapted from rzip, but not compatible with it.

== Links ==
* [http://rzip.samba.org/ Official site]
* [http://rzip.samba.org/rzip/rzip-man.html Man page]
* [http://rzip.samba.org/ftp/rzip/ Downloads]
* [[Wikipedia:rzip|Wikipedia article]]

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 '''rzip''' is a file compression utility and compressed file format developed by Andrew Tridgell.

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-'''rzip''' is an archiving format (implemented for Unix-style operating systems) that achieves better compression than other formats by taking advantage of long-distance redundancies in the full data set being compressed. Due to its need to analyze the data set as a whole before compressing any of it, it is unable to work with a "piped" data stream (as opposed to a set of disk files), and requires a large amount of memory and a slow, multi-pass algorithm.
+It achieves better compression than other formats by taking advantage of long-distance redundancies in the full data set being compressed. Due to its need to analyze the data set as a whole before compressing any of it, it is unable to work with a "piped" data stream (as opposed to a set of disk files), and requires a large amount of memory and a slow, multi-pass algorithm.
 There does not appear to be any written-up detailed documentation of the file format in any public place, but the program is open-source, allowing enterprising geeks to figure out the format by studying the code.
-[[lrzip]] is an improved archiving format adapted from rzip, but not compatible with it.
+[[lrzip]] is an improved format adapted from rzip, but not compatible with it.
 == Links ==