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GZip

In computing, compression software, properly called GNU Zip, commonly used on the Internet. Files compressed using GZip can be recognized by the file extension ‘.GZ’. The software is published by the Free Software Foundation and was originally developed for Unix.


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Both tar and gzip are available in open-source implementations and do not employ proprietary algorithms, which would require the payment of royalties.
Within that B-tree the data is also compressed to make it essentially of identical size to a normal gzip of the same data--about 90% reduction of the raw data size.
This set, Issue 101, contains 18 528 structures in gzip format and requires 9 CD-ROMs per set.
 
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