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gzip is just the compression/decompression algorithm (Deflate) from PKZip. They needed a new compress/decompress tool once IBM asserted their patent rights on
by canucker2016 3y ago
gzip is just the compression/decompression algorithm (Deflate) from PKZip.
They needed a new compress/decompress tool once IBM asserted their patent rights on the LZW algorithm used in the compress tool.
- account42 3y agogzip adds its own file header with lots of useless information like a field for a file name. zip uses a different header for the compression stream, commonly known as the zlib format. They also use different checksums at the end (CRC32 vs Adler32).