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* [[DEFLATE]]
 
* [[DEFLATE]]
 
* [[DivANS]]
 
* [[DivANS]]
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* [[HPACK (HTTP)|HPACK]] (used to compress HTTP headers)
 
* [[Huffman coding]]
 
* [[Huffman coding]]
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** [[Adaptive Huffman coding]]
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** [[Canonical Huffman code]]
 
* [[LZ4]]
 
* [[LZ4]]
 
* [[LZ77]]
 
* [[LZ77]]
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* [[LZ77 with Huffman coding]]
 
* [[LZ78]]
 
* [[LZ78]]
 
* [[LZFSE]]
 
* [[LZFSE]]
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* [[LZMA]]
 
* [[LZMA]]
 
* [[LZMA2]]
 
* [[LZMA2]]
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* [[LZMW]]
 
* [[LZO]] (Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer)
 
* [[LZO]] (Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer)
 
* [[LZSS]] (Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski)
 
* [[LZSS]] (Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski)
 
* [[LZW]]
 
* [[LZW]]
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* [[MSZIP]]
 
* [[PKWARE DCL Implode]]
 
* [[PKWARE DCL Implode]]
 
* [[PPMd]]
 
* [[PPMd]]
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* [[Prediction by partial matching]] (PPM)
 
* [[Run-length encoding]]
 
* [[Run-length encoding]]
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** [[PackBits]]
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** [[RLE90]]
 
* [[Shannon–Fano coding]]
 
* [[Shannon–Fano coding]]
 
* [[Snappy]] (Google-created compression also used by Apple in iWork formats)
 
* [[Snappy]] (Google-created compression also used by Apple in iWork formats)
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(multi-file compressors are in [[Archiving]])
 
(multi-file compressors are in [[Archiving]])
  
* [[7z]]
 
 
* [[9CDR]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
 
* [[9CDR]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
 
* [[BARF]] (.x, .x??)
 
* [[BARF]] (.x, .x??)
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* [[BGZF]]
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* [[BWTC32Key]] (.B3K)
 
* [[bzip]] (.bz)
 
* [[bzip]] (.bz)
 
* [[bzip2]] (.bz2)
 
* [[bzip2]] (.bz2)
* [[compress]] (.Z)
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* [[ChiefLZ]] (.LZZ)
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* [[compact (Unix)]] (.C)
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* [[compress (Unix)]] (.Z)
 
* [[CrLZH]] (.?y?)
 
* [[CrLZH]] (.?y?)
 
* [[CRN]] (.crn) - compressed text files used for PC-Write manual
 
* [[CRN]] (.crn) - compressed text files used for PC-Write manual
 
* [[Crunch]] (.?z?)
 
* [[Crunch]] (.?z?)
* [[DiskDoubler]]  
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* [[Crunch-Mania]]
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* [[DACT]]
 
* [[DUPA]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
 
* [[DUPA]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
 
* [[Error Code Modeler]] (.ecm)
 
* [[Error Code Modeler]] (.ecm)
 
* [[File Imploder]] (Amiga) (.imp)
 
* [[File Imploder]] (Amiga) (.imp)
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* [[FlySpeed st/exp]]
 
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (Unix) (.F)
 
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (Unix) (.F)
 
* [[gzip]] (.gz)
 
* [[gzip]] (.gz)
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* [[Hammer (compression)|Hammer]]
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* [[HAP]] v2.x
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* [[ICE (Michael Lamanuzzi)|ICE]] (.ice, by Michael Lamanuzzi)
 
* [[Inflate]] (.infl) - parody format that actually increases size
 
* [[Inflate]] (.infl) - parody format that actually increases size
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* [[JAM (W. Jiang)]]
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* [[The JAM Packer]]
 
* [[JCalG1]] (.jc, Commodore Amiga)
 
* [[JCalG1]] (.jc, Commodore Amiga)
 
* [[lrzip]] (.lrz)
 
* [[lrzip]] (.lrz)
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* [[MS-DOS installation compression]] (.??_)
 
* [[MS-DOS installation compression]] (.??_)
 
* [[Oodle Data Compression]]
 
* [[Oodle Data Compression]]
* [[pack]] (.z)
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* [[pack (Unix)]] (.z)
* [[Pack-Ice]]
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* [[PowerPacker]] (.pp)
 
* [[PowerPacker]] (.pp)
 
* [[Pro-Pack]]
 
* [[Pro-Pack]]
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* [[PUT and GET (Scott Jennings)]]
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* [[Quasijarus Strong Compression]]
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* [[RAC]]
 
* [[RK]] (WinRK)
 
* [[RK]] (WinRK)
 
* [[rzip]] (.rz)
 
* [[rzip]] (.rz)
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* [[SCO compress LZH]]
 
* [[SHARC]] (density)
 
* [[SHARC]] (density)
 
* [[Softdisk Text Compressor]] (.ctx)
 
* [[Softdisk Text Compressor]] (.ctx)
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* [[SQ2]]
 
* [[Squash (RISC OS)|Squash]] - single file compression on RISC OS
 
* [[Squash (RISC OS)|Squash]] - single file compression on RISC OS
 
* [[Squeeze|Squeeze/SQ]] (.?q?)
 
* [[Squeeze|Squeeze/SQ]] (.?q?)
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* [[SQUEEZE (AJP Systems)]]
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* [[Sunzip]] (.sz)
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* [[TERSE]]
 
* [[TTComp archive]]
 
* [[TTComp archive]]
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* [[TTW]]
 
* [[tzip]]
 
* [[tzip]]
 
* [[Tzip (Text ZIP)]]
 
* [[Tzip (Text ZIP)]]
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* [[WWPACK]]
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* [[XPK]]
 
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
 
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
 
* [[Yaz0]]
 
* [[Yaz0]]
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* [[ZSQ (LZW compression)]]
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== Transparent file compression ==
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(A mostly-obsolete technique in which a background process hooks into the OS and decompresses files transparently when they are read. ''Compression'' might be done manually. The line between this and ''Disk compression'' can be blurry.)
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* [[CFS (Computer Concepts Compression)]]
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* [[DIET (compression)|DIET]]
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* [[Pack-Ice]]
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* [[SLIM (Dominic Herity)|SLIM]]
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* [[Turbo Packer]]
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* [[XPACK]]
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== Disk compression ==
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(Transparent disk compression software and the like, excluding filesystem formats.)
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* [[DiskDoubler]]
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* [[DriveSpace]] and DoubleSpace
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* [[JAM (disk compression)]]
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* [[Stacker]]
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For filesystem formats that feature compression, see [[Filesystem]].
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== Executable compression ==
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See [[Executable compression]].
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
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* [[Video]] (for video-specific compression)
 
* [[Video]] (for video-specific compression)
 
* [[Audio and Music]] (for audio-specific compression)
 
* [[Audio and Music]] (for audio-specific compression)
* [[Executables#Executable compression|Executables]] (for executable-specific compression)
 
  
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==

Revision as of 13:41, 16 October 2020

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Stream compression formats

A stream format takes a stream of bytes, and outputs a different, hopefully smaller, stream of bytes. These compression formats are often used internally in other data structures to compress data, as well as in network protocols, such as http. Used stand-alone, a stream compression format does not offer archiving capability, however in the UNIX doctrine, an archiver like tar can be combined with an archive format to produce a proper compressed archive.

Compression algorithms and compressed data formats

(excluding formats usually used as file formats)

Graphics compression

See Graphics#Compression for compression formats used primarily with graphics.

Specific file formats/programs

(multi-file compressors are in Archiving)

Transparent file compression

(A mostly-obsolete technique in which a background process hooks into the OS and decompresses files transparently when they are read. Compression might be done manually. The line between this and Disk compression can be blurry.)

Disk compression

(Transparent disk compression software and the like, excluding filesystem formats.)

For filesystem formats that feature compression, see Filesystem.

Executable compression

See Executable compression.

See also

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