GZIP

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Computing	Gzip GNU compression utility. Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv LZ77 compression. Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the filename extension ".gz". Compressed files can be restored to their original form using gzip -d or gunzip or zcat. The Unix "compress" utility is patented (by two separate patents, in fact) and is thus shunned by the GNU Project since it is not free software. They have therefore chosen gzip, which is free of any known software patents and which tends to compress better anyway. All compressed files in the GNU anonymous FTP area (gnu.org/pub/gnu) are in gzip format and their names end in ".gz" (as opposed to "compress"-compressed files, which end in ".Z"). Gzip can uncompress "compress"-compressed files and "pack" files (which end in ".z"). The decompression algorithms are not patented, only compression is. The gzip program is available from any GNU archive site in shar, tar, or gzipped tar format (for those who already have a prior version of gzip and want faster data transmission). It works on virtually every Unix system, MS-DOS, OS/2 and VMS. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Specialty Definition: Gzip

Gzip is short for GNU Zip, a GNU open-source replacement for the Unix 'compress' program.

Gzip is based on the 'deflate' algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. 'Deflate' was developed in response to patents that covered LZW and other compression algorithms and limited the usability of 'compress' and other popular archivers.

In order to make it easier to develop software that uses compression, the Zlib library was created. It supports the Gzip file format and 'deflate' compression. The library is widely used, because of its small size, efficiency and versatility, although since the late-1990s there has been some movement from gzip to bzip2 which produces somewhat smaller files.

The Zlib compressed data format, the 'deflate' algorithm and the Gzip file format were standardised respectively as RFC 1950, RFC 1951 and RFC 1952.

The usual file extension for gzipped files is .gz. Unix software is often distributed as files ending with .tar.gz, called tarballs. They are files first packaged with tar and then compressed with gzip. They can be decompressed with gzip -d file.tar.gz. Nowadays more and more software is instead distributed as .tar.bz2 archives because bzip2 compresses files better than gzip.

Read further

Gzip Home Page and http://www.gzip.org/
Zlib Home Page
Winzip and Gzip
http://www.powerarchiver.com a freeware tar, gzip and bzip2 utility for Windows.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: GZIP

Anagrams: GZIP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-p-z"
	-1 letter: gip, pig, zig, zip.
	-2 letters: pi.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-p-z"
	+3 letters: prizing, putzing, zapping, zipping.
	+4 letters: paganize, plotzing, puzzling, upgazing.
	+5 letters: apologize, apprizing, baptizing, capsizing, gazumping, paganized, paganizer, paganizes, pectizing, peptizing, pidginize, poetizing, prologize, spritzing, unzipping, zigamorph, zippering.
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Alternative Orthography: GZIP

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 5A 49 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--. --.. .. .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01011010 01001001 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#90 &#73 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 005A 0049 0050

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
gzip	217	gzip vb zlib	4
gzip mod	19	gzip unix	4
gzip window	15	gzip mod phpa	4
download gzip	10	gzip linux	4
gzip mod stats	8	gzip mod stat	3
gzip mod redirect	8	gzip howto mod ssl	3
gzip tar	7	gzip java	3
gzip mod mrtg	6	aix gzip	2
awstats gzip mod	4	gzip compression	2
gzip logformat mod	4	gzip win32	2
		disable gzip host mod virtual	2
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GZIP

Specialty Definition: GZIP

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Specialty Definition: Gzip

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Crosswords: GZIP

Frequency of Internet Keywords: GZIP

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