SCO compress LZH
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SCO compress LZH refers to a compressed file format that can be created by the SCO Unix version of the compress utility, as an alternative to the standard compress format. The LZH format usually has a better compression ratio. The -H option must be used to create such files.
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Identification
Files begin with signature bytes 1f a0.
Compare to compress#Identification.
Software
- GNU gzip can decompress the format.
Links
Editors' notes
The man page says "Portions of this code used for Lempel-Ziv-Huffman encoding were based on Rahul Dhesi's Zoo archiver which was adapted from Haruhiko Okumura's ar archiver".
Gzip says "The code in this file is directly derived from the public domain 'ar002' written by Haruhiko Okumura."
Note that Haruhiko Okumura was also involved in the development of LHArc.
Possibly-relevant software:
