How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

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Post by yurisagalov » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 1:20 PM UTC

How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)
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Re: How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

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Post by chickenbane » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 6:23 PM UTC

Not only is this a great read, but the follow up for citations is replied with "I am the reference".

If this were reddit I'd post the hot fire gif. Eh, here it's anyway: http://i.imgur.com/VQLGJOL.gif

Re: How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

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Post by sikhnerd » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 6:37 PM UTC

It's annoyingly common how the OP doesn't mark this answer as accepted, or even acknowledge how amazing this answer is from one of the technology's creators -- instead just goes on to ask a followup.

Re: How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

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Post by 404-universe » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 6:43 PM UTC

Where do the other popular compression utilities (e.g. bzip2, xzip, lzma, 7zip) fit in to this?

Re: How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

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Post by kbenson » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 6:45 PM UTC

404-universe wrote: post #4

Where do the other popular compression utilities (e.g. bzip2, xzip, lzma, 7zip) fit in to this?

He covers all that, at least in passing. It's a fairly comprehensive rundown.

Re: How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

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Post by TimMeade » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 6:49 PM UTC

404-universe wrote: post #4

Where do the other popular compression utilities (e.g. bzip2, xzip, lzma, 7zip) fit in to this?

Almost every one as far as I know where based on the info-zip code by Mark Adler and Jean-loup Gailly. That was used as the base at the time for zip/unzip in linux, winzip, and gzip ultimately.

Re: How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

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Post by mixmastamyk » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 6:51 PM UTC

sikhnerd wrote: post #3

It's annoyingly common how the OP doesn't mark this answer as accepted, or even acknowledge how amazing this answer is from one of the technology's creators -- instead just goes on to ask a followup.

The accepted answer is often wrong (or obsolete) and grants a small number of points. The obsession with it on SO is a bit odd.

Re: How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

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Post by minionslave » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 6:52 PM UTC

It's kinda bad-ass when he said: you can use this text on Wikipedia, I'm the primary reference.

Re: How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

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Post by agumonkey » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC

minionslave wrote: post #8

It's kinda bad-ass when he said: you can use this text on Wikipedia, I'm the primary reference.

But did he won the putnam ?

Re: How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

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Post by agumonkey » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 6:56 PM UTC

Archived link juste in case http://archive.is/SvUO5