GNU Zip

GNU Zip is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for compress. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms. It has been adopted by the GNU project and is now relatively popular on the Internet.

• Project Homepage [EN]

• GNU Zip [EN] @ Wikipedia
• GNU Zip [DE] @ Wikipedia

Documentation

• GNU Gzip Manual [EN]

Request for Comments (RFC)

• 1952 - GZIP file format specification version 4.3 [EN]

Components

3 pages found:

• gunzip
• gzip
• zcat