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LINUX gives you a few different types of compression types: GZ, for example. In this section you will find several programs that let you compress and decompress different compression formats quickly and easily.
bzip2
- Version: Development 0.9.5d
- Byte Size: 451.0 KB (461,787 bytes)
- License: BSD
- Revision Date: August 10th, 1999
- Home Page: http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
- Binary: Alpha
RPM
Sparc
PPC
M68K
Mipseb
- Description: bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques, while being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.
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Dmsdos
- Version: Stable 0.9.2.1
- Byte Size: 262.4 KB (268,649 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: March 4, 1999
- Home Page: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux
- Description: Provides read and write access to compressed partitions. Supported partitions include DoubleSpace / DriveSpace (MSDOS 6.x), DoubleSpace / DriveSpace (older Win95 releases), DriveSpace 3 (Win95 with Plus! pack or newer Win95), Stacker 3, and Stacker 4. It even runs under UMSDOS.
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e2compr
- Version: Stable 0.4.36
- Byte Size: 154.2 KB (157,870 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: Febuary 5, 2000
- Home Page: http://opensource.captech.com/e2compr/
- Additional Software Required: Stable Kernel 2.2.14
- Note: For other Kernel versions see Homepage.
- Description: e2compr is a kernel patch and utility set to compress files transparently, using LZH/GZIP8/GZIP9/BZIP2 for compression. You don't have to recompile or write new apps to use it, but you'll have to get the e2fsprogs version for e2c to use e2fsck and other fs utils.
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Fastjar
- Version: Stable 0.90
- Byte Size: 39.2 KB (40,115 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: December 6, 1999
- Home Page: http://fastjar.sourceforge.net/
- Description: Fastjar is a version of Sun's 'jar' utility, written entirely in C, and therefore quite a bit faster. Fastjar can be up to 100x faster than the stock 'jar' program running without a JIT.
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GNU GZIP
- Version: Stable 1.2.4
- Byte Size: 780.0 KB (798,720 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: September 10, 1998
- Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
- Binary: RPM
- Description: This is the popular GNU file compression and decompression program, gzip. This program is commonly used with Tar to provide quite possibly some of the best compression this archive format has ever seen.
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LHA
- Version: Stable 1.00
- Byte Size: 84.0 KB (86,043 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: September 23th, 1998
- Binary: RPM
PPC
Alpha
Sparc
M68K
Mipseb
- Description: This is an archiving and compression utility. It is mostly used in the DOS world, but can be used under Linux to extract DOSfiles from LHA archives.
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PKZip
- Version: Stable 2.51
- Byte Size: 302.4 KB (309,637 bytes)
- License: Shareware
- Revision Date: March 31, 1999
- Home Page: http://www.pkware.com/
- Binary: RPM
- Description: PKZip for Linux Nuff' said.
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RAR for Linux
- Version: Stable 2.50
- Byte Size: 254.8 KB (260,868 bytes)
- License: Shareware
- Revision Date: December 9, 1999
- Cost: $35.00
- Evaluation Period: 40 days
- Home Page: http://www.rarsoft.net
- Description: RAR for linux introduces an original compression algorithm. It allows higher compression ratios than
other PC archiving tools, especially on executable files, Object libraries, large text files, etc. Along with many great features.
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tar
- Version: Stable 1.13.14
- Byte Size: 1.1 MB (1,166,880 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: November 8th, 1999
- Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
- Binary: RPM
PPC
Alpha
Sparc
M68K
Mipseb
- Description: GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow `tar' to be used for incremental and full backups. It also includes `rmt', the remote tape server (the `mt' tape drive control program is in GNU `cpio').
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unarj
- Version: Stable 2.43
- Byte Size: 38.7 KB (39,620 bytes)
- License: Free Software
- Revision Date: June 18th, 1999
- Binary: Source
PPC
Alpha
Sparc
RPM
Mips
Mipseb
- Description: unarj is an ARJ un-archiver. ARJ is a classic (DOS) archiver, comparable to zip. Note that no corresponding archiver is available for linux.
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unRAR
- Version: Stable 2.50
- Byte Size: 51.3 KB (52,483 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: May 28th, 1999
- Home Page: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/compress/
- Binary: RPM
Source
- Description: The unRAR utility is a freeware program distributed with source code and developed for extracting, testing and viewing the contents of archives created with the RAR archiver.
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UnZip
- Version: Stable 5.31
- Byte Size: 129.5 KB (132,564 bytes)
- License: FRS
- Revision Date: June 18th, 1999
- Home Page: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/compress/
- Binary: Source,
PPC,
Alpha
RPM
Sparc
M68K
Mipseb
- Description: UnZip 5.31 is a free unarchiver compatible with PKZIP archives but not a clone of PKUNZIP. This version improves performance somewhat, includes zipgrep and adds a new "timestamp" function for very fast dating of multiple archives, but most of its new features have to do with better cross-platform support and/or new ports.
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UPX
- Version: Stable 0.99.3
- Byte Size: 132.0 KB (135,168 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: March 8th, 2000
- Home Page: http://cdata.tvnet.hu/~ml/upx.html#download
- Description: 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.
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Zip
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zlibc
- Version: Stable 0.9i
- Byte Size: 88.5 KB (90,633 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: July 8, 1999
- Home Page: http://zlibc.linux.lu/
- Binary: RPM
- Description: Transparent access to compressed files. Shared object to transparently uncompress datafiles on the fly for all executables. In certain cases, datafiles can also be compressed on the fly while they are written.
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