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gzip

http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip
A compression utility designed to replace 'compress'. Much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms are its main advantages over compress. Gzip decompresses files created by gzip, compress, or pack; it detects the input format automatically.

Documentation

User manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/gzip.html

Related Projects

• Info-ZIP- UnZip branch
• LZMA Utils
• Lzip
• Z
• Zlib
• Gnuit
• Sharutils

This is a GNU package

Download

Download version 1.4 (stable)
released on 20 January 2010

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• System-administration:backup
• Use:system-administration

Licensing

License	Verified by	Verified on	Notes
GPLv2orlater	Kelly Hopkins	2455217.521 January 2010
GPLv3orlater	Kelly Hopkins	2455217.521 January 2010

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Jim Meyering	Maintainer
Paul Eggert	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Bug Tracking	E-mail	mailto:bug-gzip@gnu.org

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This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 4 November 2009.

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