Squeeze It

File Format
Name	Squeeze It
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Squeeze It
Extension(s)	.sqz
Released	Possibly 1992

Not to be confused with Squeeze, a single-file compression format for CP/M released around 1981.

Squeeze It, sometimes shortened to SQZ, is an early-1990s archival/compression program for DOS, written by Jonas I Hammarberg. It creates files with the extension ".sqz" (".SQZ" with DOS naming conventions). It was a minor contender in the "archiver wars" of the 1980s and 1990s.

Identification

Squeeze It archives start with ASCII HLSQZ.

Software

• Version 1.08.3 (1993) (executable that, when run, extracts from itself the actual Squeeze It utility, as well as documentation and a sample file)
• Ainviewer
• FID
• Multiple Unpacker