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* [[DivANS]]
 
* [[DivANS]]
 
* [[EXEPACK2]]
 
* [[EXEPACK2]]
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* [[FastLZ]]
 
* [[Fractal compression]]
 
* [[Fractal compression]]
 
* [[HPACK (HTTP)|HPACK]] (used to compress HTTP headers)
 
* [[HPACK (HTTP)|HPACK]] (used to compress HTTP headers)
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** [[Adaptive Huffman coding]]
 
** [[Adaptive Huffman coding]]
 
** [[Canonical Huffman code]]
 
** [[Canonical Huffman code]]
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* [[InstaCompOne]]
 
* [[Lempel–Ziv–Stac]] (LZS)
 
* [[Lempel–Ziv–Stac]] (LZS)
 
* [[LZ4]]
 
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* [[LZMW]]
 
* [[LZMW]]
 
* [[LZO]] (Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer)
 
* [[LZO]] (Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer)
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* [[LZRW]]
 
* [[LZSS]] (Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski)
 
* [[LZSS]] (Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski)
 
* [[LZW]]
 
* [[LZW]]
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* [[ABC (Advanced Blocksorting Compressor)]]
 
* [[ABC (Advanced Blocksorting Compressor)]]
 
* [[ABComp]] (.abp)
 
* [[ABComp]] (.abp)
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* [[Aldus PKZP]]
 
* [[BARF]] (.x, .x??)
 
* [[BARF]] (.x, .x??)
 
* [[BGZF]]
 
* [[BGZF]]
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* [[compact (Unix)]] (.C)
 
* [[compact (Unix)]] (.C)
 
* [[compress (Unix)]] (.Z)
 
* [[compress (Unix)]] (.Z)
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* [[CMP (NEW-DOS)]]
 
* [[CrLZH]] (.?y?)
 
* [[CrLZH]] (.?y?)
 
* [[CRN]] (.crn) - compressed text files used for PC-Write manual
 
* [[CRN]] (.crn) - compressed text files used for PC-Write manual
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* [[Crunch-Mania]]
 
* [[Crunch-Mania]]
 
* [[DACT]]
 
* [[DACT]]
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* [[DitPack]]
 
* [[DUPA]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
 
* [[DUPA]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
 
* [[EDI Install archive]]
 
* [[EDI Install archive]]
 
* [[EDI Install packed file]]
 
* [[EDI Install packed file]]
 
* [[EDI LZSSLib]]
 
* [[EDI LZSSLib]]
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* [[EmmaCompress]]
 
* [[Error Code Modeler]] (.ecm)
 
* [[Error Code Modeler]] (.ecm)
 
* [[File Imploder]] (Amiga) (.imp)
 
* [[File Imploder]] (Amiga) (.imp)
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* [[gzip]] (.gz)
 
* [[gzip]] (.gz)
 
* [[Hammer (compression)|Hammer]]
 
* [[Hammer (compression)|Hammer]]
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* [[HAP]] v2.x
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* [[HAP]] (v2.x)
 
* [[ICE (Michael Lamanuzzi)|ICE]] (.ice, by Michael Lamanuzzi)
 
* [[ICE (Michael Lamanuzzi)|ICE]] (.ice, by Michael Lamanuzzi)
 
* [[Inflate]] (.infl) - parody format that actually increases size
 
* [[Inflate]] (.infl) - parody format that actually increases size
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* [[InstallIt!]]
 
* [[JAM (W. Jiang)]]
 
* [[JAM (W. Jiang)]]
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* [[The JAM Packer]]
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* [[The JAM Packer|JAM Packer, The]]
 
* [[JCalG1]] (.jc, Commodore Amiga)
 
* [[JCalG1]] (.jc, Commodore Amiga)
 
* [[Kboom11]]
 
* [[Kboom11]]
 
* [[lrzip]] (.lrz)
 
* [[lrzip]] (.lrz)
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* [[LZ5 and Lizard]]
 
* [[LZARI]]
 
* [[LZARI]]
 
* [[LZHUF]]
 
* [[LZHUF]]
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* [[LZWCOM]]
 
* [[LZWCOM]]
 
* [[LzwPak]]
 
* [[LzwPak]]
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* [[Microsoft KWAJ installation compression]]
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* [[Microsoft SZ installation compression]]
 
* [[Mozilla LZ4]] (.jsonlz4)
 
* [[Mozilla LZ4]] (.jsonlz4)
 
* [[MS-DOS installation compression]] (.??_)
 
* [[MS-DOS installation compression]] (.??_)
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* [[MULTIKIT COMPRESS]]
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* [[NetWare Packed File]]
 
* [[NOAH]]
 
* [[NOAH]]
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* [[Nova Compress]]
 
* [[NPack]]
 
* [[NPack]]
 
* [[NRV (Not Really Vanished)]]
 
* [[NRV (Not Really Vanished)]]
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* [[PGNPack]]
 
* [[PGNPack]]
 
* [[PowerPacker]] (.pp)
 
* [[PowerPacker]] (.pp)
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* [[PPMZ]]
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* [[PPMZ2]]
 
* [[Pro-Pack]]
 
* [[Pro-Pack]]
 
* [[PUT and GET (Scott Jennings)]]
 
* [[PUT and GET (Scott Jennings)]]
 
* [[Quasijarus Strong Compression]]
 
* [[Quasijarus Strong Compression]]
 
* [[RAC]]
 
* [[RAC]]
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* [[Reduq]]
 
* [[RKUC]]
 
* [[RKUC]]
 
* [[rzip]] (.rz)
 
* [[rzip]] (.rz)
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* [[S2]] (.s2, .snappy)
 
* [[SCO compress LZH]]
 
* [[SCO compress LZH]]
 
* [[SEMONE]] (.one)
 
* [[SEMONE]] (.one)
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* [[sfArk]]
 
* [[SFDN Packer]]
 
* [[SFDN Packer]]
 
* [[SHARC]] (density)
 
* [[SHARC]] (density)
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* [[CFS (Computer Concepts Compression)]]
 
* [[CFS (Computer Concepts Compression)]]
 
* [[DIET (compression)|DIET]]
 
* [[DIET (compression)|DIET]]
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* [[Diet Disk]]
 
* [[Pack-Ice]]
 
* [[Pack-Ice]]
 
* [[SLIM (Dominic Herity)|SLIM]]
 
* [[SLIM (Dominic Herity)|SLIM]]

Latest revision as of 12:18, 27 April 2024

File Format
Name Compression
Ontology

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Contents

[edit] Stream compression formats

A stream format takes a stream of bytes, and outputs a different, hopefully smaller, stream of bytes. These compression formats are often used internally in other data structures to compress data, as well as in network protocols, such as http. Used stand-alone, a stream compression format does not offer archiving capability, however in the UNIX doctrine, an archiver like tar can be combined with an archive format to produce a proper compressed archive.

[edit] Compression algorithms and compressed data formats

(excluding formats usually used as file formats)

[edit] Graphics compression

See Graphics#Compression for compression formats used primarily with graphics.

[edit] Specific file formats/programs

(multi-file compressors are in Archiving)

[edit] Transparent file compression

(A mostly-obsolete technique in which a background process hooks into the OS and decompresses files transparently when they are read. Compression might be done manually. The line between this and Disk compression can be blurry.)

[edit] Disk compression

(Transparent disk compression software and the like, excluding filesystem formats.)

For filesystem formats that feature compression, see Filesystem (especially Filesystem#Compressed filesystems).

[edit] Executable compression

See Executable compression.

[edit] See also

[edit] Links

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