The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

I personally feel that compression and decompression related commands are one of the most troublesome contents in this tutorial. But we still have to overcome difficulties. There is a good news that ...

In the '80s and early '90s, compression was king. As you struggled to connect to a BBS (bulletin board system) with the latest Amiga utilities on, you dreamed of when things would be faster and not ...

If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

The 7za command is a part of the 7-Zip software suite, which is a high-compression file archiver. The 7za command is the standalone version of 7-Zip, capable of creating and extracting 7z, tar, gzip, ...

The bug, which affects the current version of zlib, 1.2.2, can be exploited to create a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, which could crash any application using the library or let the attacker plant ...