RFC1979 PPP Deflate Protocol. [c. 1996/08/01]

RFC1978 PPP Predictor Compression Protocol. [c. 1996/08/01]

RFC1993 PPP Gandalf FZA Compression Protocol. [c. 1996/08/01]

RFC1975 PPP Magnalink Variable Resource Compression. [c. 1996/08/01]

RFC1974 PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol. [c. 1996/08/01]

RFC1967 PPP LZS-DCP Compression Protocol (LZS-DCP). [c. 1996/08/01]

RFC1962 The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP). [c. 1996/06/01]

RFC1952 GZIP file format specification version 4.3. [c. 1996/05/01]

RFC1951 DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3. [c. 1996/05/01]

RFC1950 ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3. [c. 1996/05/01]

RFC2118 Microsoft Point-To-Point Compression (MPPC) Protocol. [c. 1997/03/01]

RFC1976 PPP for Data Compression in Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (DCE). [c. 1996/08/01]

RFC1977 PPP BSD Compression Protocol. [c. 1996/08/01]

RFC1144 Compressing TCP/IP headers for low-speed serial links. [ 1990/02/01]

comp.compression Frequently Asked Questions (part 1/3)

JPEG image compression FAQ, part 1/2

COMPRESS - MS Compress 6.22+ File Format (Incomplete)

WORD CODING - Word Coding Compression Algorithm

COMPRESS - MS Compress 5.0 File Format (Incomplete)

INCREMENTAL COMPRESSION - Incremental Compression Algorithm

XML Compression Options? [2002/01/17]

Can Unix Mount .TAR.GZ and .ZIP Files? [ 2000/09/13]

What Has Happened To Fractal Image Compression? [ 2000/09/10]

zforce(1) - force a '.gz' extension on all gzip files {oss}

zgrep(1) - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression {oss}

zmore(1) - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text {oss}

znew(1) - recompress .Z files to .gz files {oss}

gzip gunzip zcat(1) - compress or expand files {oss}

gzexe(1) - compress executable files in place {oss}

compress uncompress(1) - compress and expand data {oss}

UPX: the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables - UPX is a portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers *very* fast decompression. {(L)GPL}

deepforest-1.0a - A simple compress utilty using on JDE

ja-deepforest-1.0a - A simple compress utilty using on JDE

linux_rar-2.90 - General purpose archiving and compression tool (binary port)

mscompress-0.3 - Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe" compatible (de)compressor

pkzip-2.5 - Create/update/list/test/extract pkzip ZIP files

libcomprex-0.1.0 - Transparently handles automatic compression and decompression of files

p5-IO-Zlib-1.01 - IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib

stuffit-5.2.0.611 - Stuffit Archive Creator and Expander

lbrate-1.0 - Extract/decompress CP/M LBR archives

szip-1.12b - A fast compression utility

lha-1.14i - Archive files using LZW compression (.lzh files)

zoo-2.10.1 - Manipulate archives of files in compressed form.

arc-5.21e.8 - Create & extract files from DOS .ARC files

Misc.Patches1 - Changes to calls, compress, ditrev, getpaths, nbatcher {oss}

squeeze1.711 - A file compression program {oss}

compress.xenix - Xenix patches to compress4.0 {oss}

yabbawhap - Public-domain replacement for compress programs {oss}

Compress - a state-of-the-art file compression program {oss}

Compress {oss}

tcx - Transparently Compressed Executables for UNIX {oss}

ZipCracker - Cracks password protected zip archives with brute force(TM) {GPL}

lzop - A very fast file compressor similar to gzip {GPL}

tkArchive - modular GUI to unix archive utilities {x,GPL}

StuffIt Deluxe 7.5

Lzip - An advanced, lossy data compression utility.

unarj - arj un-archiver {Freeware}

unzip-5.42 - List, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive

zip-2.3 - Create/update ZIP files compatible with pkzip

bzip2 - Very high-quality data compression program {BSL}

Djvu Compressor - Innovative document image compression technique {free for non-commercial use}

Lzhuf.C - Compression used in LHARC & LHA {oss}

Compress It for Palm OS

StuffIt Deluxe 6.5

21st Century Easy Zip

Pkzip Suite 4.5

StuffIt 7.0

StuffIt 7.0 (10-pack)

Stuffit Deluxe French Version 4.5

StuffIt Deluxe 6.5 (10-pack)

Pkzip 4.5

StuffIt 7.0

FileWrangler 1.0

ZipExpert 1.

Applications and Utilities

cppadvio-2.6 - Advanced i/o, networking, and arithmetic compression C++ classlib

ruby-zlib-0.5.1 - An extension library to use zlib from Ruby

zziplib-0.10.11 - A library to provide transparent read access to zipped files

libarc-2.0.2 - Tiny C library to decompress data in several popular compression formats

librsync-0.9.5_1 - Library for delta compression of streams

ucl-0.92 - A data compression library with low memory usage during decompression

p5-Archive-Zip-0.11 - Perl module to create, manipulate, read, and write Zip archive files

ruby-zip-0.4.2 - A Ruby module for reading and writing zip files

py22-bzip2-1.0 - Python Interface for bz2 Compression Library

p5-Compress-Zlib-1.14 - Perl5 interface to zlib compression library

Python-LZO - Python bindings for the LZO real-time data compression library {GPL}

Perl-LZO - Provides LZO bindings for Perl5 {GPL}

LZO - Data compression library with very fast (de-)compression {GPL}

AVFS - C library add-on, which enables all programs to look inside compressed files {GPL}

p5-Compress-LZO-1.00.tgz - Perl5 interface to lzo compression library

zlib-1.1.3 - General purpose data compression library {}

Python-LZO - Python bindings for the

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