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| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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gzip the size of the named files using {Lempel-Ziv} {LZ77 compression}. Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the {filename extension} ".gz". Compressed files can be restored to their original form using gzip -d or gunzip or zcat. The Unix "{compress}" utility is patented (by two separate patents, in fact) and is thus shunned by the GNU Project since it is not {free software}. They have therefore chosen gzip, which is free of any known {software patent}s and which tends to compress better anyway. All compressed files in the {GNU} {anonymous FTP} area (gnu.org/pub/gnu) are in gzip format and their names end in ".gz" (as opposed to "compress"-compressed files, which end in ".Z"). Gzip can uncompress "compress"-compressed files and "pack" files (which end in ".z"). The decompression algorithms are not patented, only compression is. The gzip program is available from any {GNU archive site} in {shar}, {tar}, or gzipped tar format (for those who already have a prior version of gzip and want faster data transmission). It works on virtually every {Unix} system, {MS-DOS}, {OS/2} and {VMS}. | |
