Pack (Unix)

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== Software ==
 
== Software ==
 
* [https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ GNU gzip] ''[Note: Broken in v1.6 - 1.8]''
 
* [https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ GNU gzip] ''[Note: Broken in v1.6 - 1.8]''
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* [https://github.com/temisu/ancient Ancient]
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* {{Deark}}
 
* [https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V10 Tenth Edition of Unix] → v10src.tar.bz2 → cmd/pack/ - Source code
 
* [https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V10 Tenth Edition of Unix] → v10src.tar.bz2 → cmd/pack/ - Source code
 
* illumos: [http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/pack/ pack], [http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/unpack/ unpack] - Source code
 
* illumos: [http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/pack/ pack], [http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/unpack/ unpack] - Source code

Revision as of 12:59, 11 July 2023

File Format
Name pack (Unix)
Ontology
Extension(s) .z
Wikidata ID Q29650301

pack is a command in Unix-style operating systems to compress files using Huffman coding. Files normally have a lowercase .z extension, appended to their names including any other extension they may already have in their uncompressed versions, e.g., file.txt.z.

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Identification

Files begin with bytes 0x1F 0x1E.

The gzip source code mentions an "old pack format" that begins with 0x1F 0x1F.

See also compress (Unix)#The 0x1f compression family.

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