If you are a windows system user,I would bet that you have never seen the gzip file(file with the file extension GZIP (gz)).'Cause it's mostly used on UNIX and Linux/BSD,as a compression format.
When I take a look into the history of compression format,the most interesting thing I find is that the DEFLATE algorithm seems to be the origin of many modern compression algorithms.Though the LZW is much earlier,but for some patent reasons,LZW lost the chance to be put into use widely. 继续阅读 'Small Talk on GZIP'
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