compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm. Compared to gzip's fastest setting, compress is slightly slower at...
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are filename extensions and may refer to the output of: compress (software) (.Z) pack (software) (.z) Z (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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Gzip (category Cross-platform software)
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and intended for use by GNU (from which...
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Zlib (category 1995 software)
with the libpng image library. It is free software, distributed under the zlib License. Raw DEFLATE compressed data (RFC 1951) are typically written with...
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runs a utility to back up the database, or a job may run a utility to compress a disk before copying files. Although a basic set of utility programs is...
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XZ Utils (category Free data compression software)
for compressing their software packages. Arch Linux previously used xz to compress packages, but as of 27 December 2019, packages are compressed with...
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Smallpdf.com (category Software companies of Switzerland)
is a Swiss online web-based PDF software, founded in 2013. It offers free version with limited features to compress, convert and edit PDF documents....
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Data compression (redirect from File compressing)
possible software that generates x. For example, in that model, a zip file's compressed size includes both the zip file and the unzipping software, since...
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Backup software There are several features of backup software that make it more effective in backing up data. Voluming allows the ability to compress and...
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Video editing software or a video editor is software used for performing the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a non-linear editing...
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List of archive formats (redirect from PIM (software))
formats are used for backups, mobility, and archiving. Many archive formats compress the data to consume less storage space and result in quicker transfer times...
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SD packages are normally stored and transmitted in compressed form, using either the gzip or compress programs. The tools for performing SD operations are...
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DiskDoubler (redirect from Salient Software DiskDoubler)
small software firm that went out of business in 1989. Chambers had already released a version of the Unix Compress utility on the Mac as MacCompress. While...
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software products were reformulations of existing content into CD-ROM editions, often supplemented with new multimedia content, including compressed video...
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File archiver (redirect from Archiving software)
timestamps, file attributes and access control information. An archiver might compress input file content to reduce the size of the resulting archive. The process...
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quality instead were searching for an ideal compression algorithm that would compress the video files while still preserving the quality. Microsoft recognized...
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ZIP (file format) (redirect from Compressed folder)
quickly supported by many software utilities other than PKZIP. Microsoft has included built-in ZIP support (under the name "compressed folders") in versions...
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Retrieved 21 April 2013. (Note: MpCRC.html is included with the Matpack compressed software source code, under /html/LibDoc/Crypto) Geremia, Patrick (April 1999)...
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Executable compression (redirect from Executable compressed file)
packers, runtime packers, software packers, software protectors, or even "polymorphic packers" and "obfuscating tools". A compressed executable can be considered...
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Disk compression (redirect from Personalized Software Squish Plus ROM)
(4). Personalized Software, now Thaddeus Computing: 46. Retrieved 2015-04-05. http://files.mpoli.fi/unpacked/software/dos/compress/jam125sw.zip/readme...
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Tar (computing) (redirect from Tar (software))
operating systems today include tools for tar files, as well as tools to compress and decompress them, such as xz, gzip, and bzip2. The tar command was ported...
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a filename extension for informational text files accompanying compressed software. Info (band), an industrial metal band from Colombia Info-chan, a...
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PDF24 Creator (category PDF software)
PDF24 Creator is an application software by Geek Software GmbH for the creation of PDF files from any application and for converting files to the PDF...
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A video codec is software or hardware that compresses and decompresses digital video. In the context of video compression, codec is a portmanteau of encoder...
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ARJ (category Windows compression software)
(Archived by Robert Jung) is a software tool designed in 1991 by Robert K. Jung for creating high-efficiency compressed file archives. ARJ is currently...
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Deflate (section Using Deflate in new software)
covered by patents. This led to its widespread use. For example, in gzip compressed files and Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image files, in addition to...
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color magazine pages compress to 40–70 kB, black-and-white technical papers compress to 15–40 kB, and ancient manuscripts compress to around 100 kB; a...
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Incremental encoding (category Storage software stubs)
dictionary coders to compress the remaining suffixes. Incremental encoding is widely used in information retrieval to compress the lexicons used in search...
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In software engineering, a pipeline consists of a chain of processing elements (processes, threads, coroutines, functions, etc.), arranged so that the...
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file synchronization software for which there are Wikipedia articles. This is a comparison of the freeware (proprietary software release free of charge)...
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