tzip

File Format
Name	tzip
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression tzip
Extension(s)	.tz
Released	≤1998

tzip is a file compression utility, and its associated compressed file format. It was written by Adam McKee. It uses Burrows–Wheeler transform compression. It's designed such that it could be used as a drop-in replacement for gzip (although bzip2 should be preferred over tzip).

Identification

Files begin with a two-byte ASCII signature: "TZ". The third byte is always 0x00 in all known versions.

See also

• Tzip an unrelated compression format with the same name.

Software

• http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/compress/ → tzip-*