Compress (Unix)
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* [[SCO compress LZH]] | * [[SCO compress LZH]] | ||
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== Software == | == Software == | ||
Revision as of 21:06, 10 January 2020
- This article is about a specific file format. For compression in general, see Compression.
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.
