See also: Compression | 7z
Home Page: http://www.gzip.org/
File Extensions: .GZ, .GZIP, .TAR.GZ
A free, open-source compression format used by almost any Operating System but most commonly used under UNIX-like systems. A GNU-developed file format, designed to compress single files, it is often paired with TAR, which combines multiple files together.
Increasingly, Gzip is being used to compress data streams on-the-fly such as Web pages (known as http compression (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/apache/gzip/)) and SSH.
Gzip is not ZIP. It is decompressed in UNIX instead by the “unzip” command or in Windows with a program like WinZIP (http://www.winzip.com).
Related
- Gzip for Windows (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm) and Cygwin
- gzip and gunzip (http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/gz.shtml)
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