Compress

The software compress is a utility of Data compression without loss based on the algorithm of Lempel and Ziv of 1978 LZ78 and available on the systems UNIX and GNU/Linux. The name of the files generated by this utility end in general in ". Z" (in capital letter).

The algorithm of compression being patented in certain countries, this software is not available on the Linux systems wanting to use only software known as " free ".

See too

  • Gzip : it can decompress the format ". Z" of compress, but it cannot create it for questions of patent about the algorithm of compression
  • Formats (extensions) of files

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