Compress (Unix)
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Revision as of 16:46, 25 August 2013
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.
Software
- gzip can uncompress compressed files.
