Squeeze It

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

See Squeeze for formats with similar names.

"Squeeze", an unrelated program by Sven Ritter, had a drag-and-drop feature that used the label "Squeeze It". See SQX.

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.

Specifications

• The SQZ File Format, from FileFormat.info and Corion.net

Software

• Squeeze It (DOS binaries)
  • v1.08.1 (1992-08-22)
  • v1.08.2 (1992-09-11)
  • v1.08.3 (1993-01-24) (executable that, when run, extracts from itself the actual Squeeze It utility, as well as documentation and a sample file)
  • v1.08.3 - In a ZIP file
  • v1.08.4α (1993-05-19?)
• LGAVIEW - Multi-format extractor for DOS

Sample files

• dexvert samples — archive/squeezeIt