SCO compress LZH
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| − | '''SCO compress LZH''' refers to a compressed file format that can be created by the SCO Unix version of the <code>compress</code> utility, as an alternative to the [[compress|standard compress format]]. The LZH format usually has a better compression ratio. The <code>-H</code> option must be used to create such files. | + | '''SCO compress LZH''' refers to a compressed file format that can be created by the SCO Unix version of the <code>compress</code> utility, as an alternative to the [[compress (Unix)|standard compress format]]. The LZH format usually has a better compression ratio. The <code>-H</code> option must be used to create such files. |
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| + | 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 (Haruhiko Okumura)|ar archiver]]". | ||
== Identification == | == Identification == | ||
Files begin with signature bytes {{magic|1f a0}}. | Files begin with signature bytes {{magic|1f a0}}. | ||
| − | Compare to [[compress#Identification]]. | + | Compare to [[compress (Unix)#Identification]]. |
== Software == | == Software == | ||
| − | * [https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ GNU | + | * [https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ GNU Gzip] |
| + | * {{Deark}} | ||
| + | * [https://github.com/temisu/ancient Ancient] | ||
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| + | == Sample files == | ||
| + | * {{DexvertSamples|archive/scoCompress}} | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
* [http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/man/html.C/compress.C.html SCO compress man page] | * [http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/man/html.C/compress.C.html SCO compress man page] | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:55, 28 December 2023
SCO compress LZH refers to a compressed file format that can be created by the SCO Unix version of the compress utility, as an alternative to the standard compress format. The LZH format usually has a better compression ratio. The -H 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".
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[edit] Identification
Files begin with signature bytes 1f a0.
Compare to compress (Unix)#Identification.
