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Project Summary

gzip (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.

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compression deflate gnu gzip inflate zlib

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C
62%
shell script
30%
4 Other
8%

30 Day Summary

Jan 2 2025 — Feb 1 2025

12 Month Summary

Feb 1 2024 — Feb 1 2025
  • 32 Commits
    Up + 5 (18%) from previous 12 months
  • 7 Contributors
    Up + 4 (133%) from previous 12 months

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