SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Compression and Archiving

Also see:
Backup & Archiving.
MPEG (& etc.) in Graphics.

Misc:

• Freshmeat: Compression (text)
• Freshmeat: Compression (X11)
• BitJazz  Has "Condensation", a loss-less algorithm with best (Nov'98) compression of images. No Linux support.
• Bzip2:
  • bzip2 home (gzip-like compresser)
  • Bzip2 mini-HOWTO How to use the new bzip2 compression program.
• Compressed Filesystems
• DjVu  "image compression technology, which can compress high-resolution scanned documents 5 to 10 times better than JPEG"
• Info-ZIP:
  • Info-ZIP (zip and unzip for *.zip files)
  • Info-ZIP Archive Utilities  Dec'96 LG
• jka-compr  Emacs mode for transparent compressed file handling.
• LZO (compression library; very fast decompression)
• On-The_Fly Disk Compression  Jun'97 LG
• RAR: I'm not sure, but this seems to be a format of self-extracting DOS archives. Someone said one could extract files from such a file like this: "unrar x dos-archive.exe"
• SFS Software's iavaZIP  $; pure Java.
• Tar:
  • guiTAR  GUI tar front-end.
  • gxTar  A de/compression utility for GNOME.
  • TAR'ing over the Net  Aug'96 LG
• TkZip  GUI uncompressing utility.
• tzip (FTP from sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/compress); demo of Burrows-Wheeler transform
• UPX  Makes compressed executables.
• Xunzip  GNOME/KDE-compatible GUI uncompressing utility.

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