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.

What is the difference between tar and zip?

What is the difference between tar and zip? What are the use cases for each?

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How to Compress/Decompress tar.gz files in java

Can anyone show me the correct way to compress and decompress tar.gzip files in java i've been searching but …

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How can I tell if my server is serving GZipped content?

I have a webapp on a NGinx server. I set gzip on in the conf file and now I'm trying …

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Fast Concatenation of Multiple GZip Files

I have list of gzip files: file1.gz file2.gz file3.gz Is there a way to concatenate or gzipping …

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How many times can a file be compressed?

I was thinking about compression, and it seems like there would have to be some sort of limit to the …

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How does one make a Zip bomb?

This question about zip bombs naturally led me to the Wikipedia page on the topic. The article mentions an example …

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Data Compression Algorithms

I was wondering if anyone has a list of data compression algorithms. I know basically nothing about data compression and …

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What is the best file compression of random binary data that you can achieve?

Specifically, what programs are out there and what has the highest compression ratio? I tried Googling it, but it seems …

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How to zip multiple files using only .net api in c#

I like to zip multiple files which are being created dynamically in my web application. Those files should be zipped. …

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python: read lines from compressed text files

Is it easy to read a line from a gz-compressed text file using python without extracting the file completely? I …

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