SCO compress LZH

File Format
Name	SCO compress LZH
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression SCO compress LZH
Extension(s)	.Z

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".

Identification

Files begin with signature bytes 1f a0.

Compare to compress (Unix)#Identification.

Software

• GNU gzip can decompress the format.

Sample files

• https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/scoCompress/

Links

• SCO compress man page