Top "Compression" questions

The name given to the process of encoding data such that it uses lesser number of bits as compared to the original representation.

GZIP compression + htaccess deflate

Can I have both .htaccess with: DEFLATE On php, images, html files etc. + php header with: ob_start("gzhandler") ? If …

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python zipfile module doesn't seem to be compressing my files

I made a little helper function: import zipfile def main(archive_list=[],zfilename='default.zip'): print zfilename zout = zipfile.ZipFile(…

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deflate and inflate (zlib.h) in C

I am trying to implement the zlib.h deflate and inflate functions to compress and decompress a char array (not …

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uncompress a .txt.gz file in mac?

How do I uncompress a .txt.gz file in mac? I already tried unzip file.txt.gz but it says …

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Compress numpy arrays efficiently

I tried various methods to do data compression when saving to disk some numpy arrays. These 1D arrays contain sampled …

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How to compare two tarball's content

I want to tell whether two tarball files contain identical files, in terms of file name and file content, not …

linux compare tar compression
Decompressing a .lzo file using shell script

Ok so i did a fair bit of search on the web and did not find any answers. I am …

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Java: Error creating a GZIPInputStream: Not in GZIP format

I am trying to use the following Java code to compress and uncompress a String. But the line that creates …

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HTTP: What is the preferred Accept-Encoding for "gzip,deflate"?

This question is regarding the order of precedence for the media-types of the HTTP Header "Accept-Encoding" when all are of …

http compression header rfc2616 interpretation
Implementing in-memory compression for objects in Java

We have this use case where we would like to compress and store objects (in-memory) and decompress them as and …

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