PPMZ

File Format
Name	PPMZ
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression PPMZ
Released	≤1998

PPMZ is a file compression utility, and associated compressed file format. It was developed by Charles Bloom.

It doesn't have a standard filename extension.

See also:

• PPMZ2
• Prediction by partial matching

Identification

Files start with ASCII "PPMZ".

Software

• PPMZ v9.1 for DOS (Requires DOS4GW.EXE, not included.)
• PPMZ v9.1 - 32-bit Windows binary [variant 1], and source code (which requires "crblib", not included)
• PPMZ v9.1 - 32-bit Windows binary [variant 2]
• Source code (requires "crblib", not included)
• PPMZ for Linux (Linux port)

Dependencies:

• crblib.zip

Sample files

• dexvert samples — archive/ppmz

Links

• PPMZ2/PPMZ website - There's some information here, including a research paper, though there's also [1].