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 <code>compress</code> utility, as an alternative to the [[compress (Unix)|standard compress format]]. The LZH format usually has a better compression ratio. The <code>-H</code> option must be used to create such files.
 
'''SCO compress LZH''' refers to a compressed file format that can be created by the SCO Unix version of the <code>compress</code> utility, as an alternative to the [[compress (Unix)|standard compress format]]. The LZH format usually has a better compression ratio. The <code>-H</code> option must be used to create such files.
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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 (Haruhiko Okumura)|ar archiver]]".
  
 
== Identification ==
 
== Identification ==
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== Software ==
 
== Software ==
 
* [https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ GNU gzip] can decompress the format.
 
* [https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ GNU gzip] can decompress the format.
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* {{Deark}}
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== Sample files ==
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* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/scoCompress/
  
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==
 
* [http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/man/html.C/compress.C.html SCO compress man page]
 
* [http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/man/html.C/compress.C.html SCO compress man page]
 
== 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."
 
 
Use of {{CdTextfiles|simtel/simtel20/MSDOS/ARCHIVRS/AR002.ZIP|ar002}} suggests [[LHA]]'s "lh5" compression.
 
  
 
[[Category:File formats with extension .z]]
 
[[Category:File formats with extension .z]]
 
[[Category:File formats with case sensitive extensions]]
 
[[Category:File formats with case sensitive extensions]]

Revision as of 03:18, 19 November 2022

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Name SCO compress LZH
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Extension(s) .Z

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.

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".

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