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Intro
Welcome to this momentary pit stop on the road to finding what you need concerning
gzip is
single-file/stream lossless data compression utility; where the resulting compressed file generally has the suffix
gzip also refers to the associated compressed data format used by the utility:
Links
GNUgzip homepage; where YOu can find the latest gzip source code; documentation, and development information
gzip_documentation (from that home page);
you came here with questions about how to use gzip, this is the link for you
pigz home_page; where pigz is
parallel implementation of gzip, able to take advantage of multiple processors,
cores, and threads
REC 1952, which is the specification of the
wrapper tormat
REC 195L, which is the specification of the defiate compressed data format, contained within the gzip wrapper
Zib;
free software library written in C, which you can use to read and write
files and memory streams
Howare_zlib_gzipand zip relatedz; to answer your most pressing questions (summary: gzip is not zip, zip is not gzip)
ABrief History
Back when woolly_mammoths roamed the Earth, Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler wrote the gzip utility to replace the Unix compress utility. At the time the continued use of compress
was threatened by giant corporations holding patents on the LZW algorithm used by compress_
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avoiding patent infringement;
provided superior compression: The
gzip utility and format remain in wide use _
these many eons later:
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