Compress (Unix)

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Name Compress (Unix)
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Extension(s) .Z
MIME Type(s) application/x-compress


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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  • gzip can uncompress compressed files.

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