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Description of the gzip-f method

gzip (20-Sep-1996)

gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)

Compilation options: DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H

Three different tests are reported: The --fast option tries to minimise the time taken, and is equivalent to a parameter value of 1 (gzip-f). The --best option tries to maximise compression, and is equivalent to a paremeter of 9 (gzip-b). The default parameter is 6 (gzip-d), which seems to give the best of both worlds.



This page last updated Monday, January 08, 2001 by Matt Powell Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury