Compression
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Revision as of 02:16, 6 December 2012
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.
- bzip2 (.bz2)
- CCITT Group 4
- CrLZH (.?y?)
- Crunch (.?z?)
- gzip (.gz)
- Error Code Modeler (.ecm)
- LZIP (.lz)
- LZMA (.lzma)
- LZOP (.lzop)
- LZW (.z)
- Softdisk Text Compressor (.ctx)
- Squash - single file compression on RISC OS
- Squeeze/SQ (.?q?)
- XZ (.xz)