Compress (Unix)
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* [https://github.com/vapier/liblzw liblzw] | * [https://github.com/vapier/liblzw liblzw] | ||
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130702195528/http://www.willus.com/archive/unixcmds.zip Windows port of Compress utility] | * [http://web.archive.org/web/20130702195528/http://www.willus.com/archive/unixcmds.zip Windows port of Compress utility] | ||
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Revision as of 01:48, 8 December 2019
- This article is about a specific file format. For compression in general, see Compression.
compress is a Unix command line utility, and a general-purpose compressed file format. Its compression algorithm is based on LZW.
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Identifiers
The conventional filename extension is a capitalized .Z. We list lowercase .z as well, only because filenames are not always case-sensitive.
Identification
Files begin with bytes 1F 9D.
See also
- pack - A compressed file format with a similar filename extension.
