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Summary
Name	Z Compressed Data
Version
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/1671
Family
Classification	Aggregate
Disclosure
Description	Z Compressed Data are files that have been compressed by Unix's shell compression program, compress. The compress software was developed by Spencer Thomas in 1984 and uses LZW algorithm. The format has lossless data, it can be compressed and decompressed using the Unix and Linux operating systems.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration
Source date	22 Apr 2022
Source description	04/2024 (v.117)- Name of developer corrected in description. Submitted by Igor Nechaev.
Last updated	15 Apr 2024
Note	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress https://docs.fileformat.com/compression/z/ http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Compress_(Unix)