Compress
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| Type of format | Data compression |
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| Operating system | Unix |
| Unix-like | |
| Original author(s) | Spencer Thomas |
| Initial release | February 1985; 35 years ago |
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| ID | 2958522 |
About Compress
compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm. Compared to more modern compression utilities such as gzip and bzip2, compress performs faster and with less memory usage, at the cost of a significantly lower compression ratio.
