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GNU-ZIP Compressed File

Quick Info

The compression utility GNU-Zip (or GZip) comes from the unix platform, but has ben ported to almost every important System. GZip is not an archiver like PkZip or ARJ, since it only supports compression of single files. To make an archive out of multiple files, they must be turned into an uncompressed TAR-Archive, and afterward compressed with GZip. In Unix systems, the resulting files have the extension ".tar.gz", but since the DOS file system only supports three characters, this turns to "TGZ".

Quick Info:

Name: GNU-Zip Compressed File
Type: Compressed
Extension: GZ (TGZ for compressed
TAR-Archives)
Native Application: GNU-Zip compression utility
Specification: http://www.preferred.com/~ccb8m/Darctutor/gzipdesc.html
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