GZip is the Free Software Foundation's zip compression implementation. It is freely distributable and versions are available for most platforms. Most implementations of a Unix or Unix-ish OS will include gzip as standard, as will replacement Unix-style shells. If not, see your distribution web site.

mod_gzip is a module which compresses all text and html files for faster delivery. Download speed of websites is increased by up to 10 times. 99% of all browsers support content compression, while the remaining 1% of browsers which do not understand compression will automatically receive uncompressed content.

No, unfortunately Opera 5 for Symbian does not inherit this functionality from the desktop versions. It can only interpret and display pages sent as normal, uncompressed ASCII text. Similarly, Opera 5 only includes support for standard markup languages and protocols such as HTTP, HTML, WML, etc.

The BXML format and the CWXML library are aimed at optimizing parser time and not compressed-document size. In fact, CubeWerx results show that the compressed file is usually around the same size for both XML and BXML. The only files that are significantly smaller are dense-numeric ones that are written properly, since GZIP is particularly bad at compressing dense numerics. However, one thing to note is that a BXML file is about half the size of the XML file (give or take) before compression.

In general, no. Compression is pretty useless for MP3s because they're already compressed. There are occasions, due to posting difficulties, when people will break their MP3s into distinct sections using one of these formats. But for the most part, you'll just post them as MP3s.

UAAG 1.0 is available as a set of files in a gzipped tar archive or a zip archive. Your user agent may be decompressing the gzip package on the fly, but still saving it with a .gz suffix. Try removing the .gz suffix from your downloaded file and then try to open. Please consult the list of translations of UAAG 1.0. That page also indicates how to translate UAAG 1.0 in coordination with W3C. W3C also maintains a general list of translations of other W3C work.

You can request that deflate write the gzip format instead of the zlib format using deflateInit2(). You can also request that inflate decode the gzip format using inflateInit2(). Read zlib.h for more details. Note that you cannot specify special gzip header contents (e.g. a file name or modification date), nor will inflate tell you what was in the gzip header.

Despite appearing in the broker log file, this is in fact an error with the gatherd. Ensure that gzip is in the PATH of the shell from which gatherd is run or alter the Gzip directive in the gatherd.cf file to point to the correct location of gzip. This bug should not be present in Harvest 1.5

gzip" is the gzip format, and "deflate" is the zlib format. They should probably have called the second one "zlib" instead to avoid confusion with the raw deflate compressed data format. While the HTTP 1.1 RFC 2616 correctly points to the zlib specification in RFC 1950 for the "deflate" transfer encoding, there have been reports of servers and browsers that incorrectly produce or expect raw deflate data per the deflate specficiation in RFC 1951, most notably Microsoft.

Some browsers (like newer versions on Netscape) automatically unzip files after download. If this is the case, you can just rename the file to remove the .gz suffix.

Use the free program gzip. Some of the regular zip programs like WinZip will unzip files, but will only create PKZip format files, which most VRML browsers will not handle properly. A free program for Win9x/NT/2k at the VRMLworks called Win-GZ takes care of both of these operations at once. Put it on your right-mouse menu for VRML files, and you can do it all with two clicks.

These features are based on the gzencode() and bzcompress() php functions to be more independent of the platform (Unix/Windows, Safe Mode or not, and so on). So, you must have PHP4 >= 4.0.4 and Zlib/Bzip2 support (--with-zlib and --with-bz2). We faced php crashes when trying to download a dump with MS Internet Explorer when phpMyAdmin is run with php 4.2.0 (tested with php 4.2.0 RC1 to RC4). In this case you should switch back to an earlier php version.

The compress and deflate functions produce data in the zlib format, which is different and incompatible with the gzip format. The gz* functions in zlib on the other hand use the gzip format. Both the zlib and gzip formats use the same compressed data format internally, but have different headers and trailers around the compressed data.

You can have essentially the same effect as the "compress-on-the-fly" -z option that gnu tar(1) has, like this: $ tar cf - dir_or_file [...] |gzip -c > archive.tar.gz ^ ^^^^^^^^ Specifying "-" as the file name following tar(1)'s "-f" option causes tar(1) to write to standard output which, here, will go into the pipe to "gzip -c". gzip(1), in turn, will compress its input and again send it to standard output which we then redirected to a ".tar.gz" or ".tgz" file.

DiskWiz is the program for you! It can handle reading from all these formats and writing to any file or device and will soon be able to create the remaining formats. At present you can only create ADC and ADF formats. It requires WB2.x or above to work! Another program on Aminet called TransADF is also worth a look, but the latest version is quite unstable and it cannot handle ADC and DMS formats.