gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression. The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler...

files, as well as utilities commonly used to compress them, such as xz, gzip, and bzip2. The tar command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system...

alternatives like zip, gzip and bzip2. Decompression speed is higher than bzip2, but lower than gzip. Compression can be much slower than gzip, and is slower...

mod_gzip is an external extension module for the Apache HTTP Server v1 and v2. It allows using the Gzip compression method for a significant reduction...

and is an abstraction of the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in their gzip file compression program. zlib is also a crucial component of many software...

not covered by patents. This led to its widespread use – for example, in gzip compressed files and PNG image files, in addition to the ZIP file format...

compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm. Compared to gzip's fastest setting, compress is slightly slower at compression, slightly faster...

successor to gzip, it is supported by all major web browsers and has become increasingly popular, as it provides better compression than gzip.[citation needed]...

For example, one can create a pipe and set up gzip to compress things piped to it: mkfifo my_pipe gzip -9 -c < my_pipe > out.gz & In a separate process...

text and generally compress well using gzip, useful for transferring over the Internet more quickly (some gzip compressed files use the .wrz extension)...