Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux (kernel 2.4.x). It uses Gzip compression to compress files, inodes and directories. Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimise data overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum of 64K.

Version 3.2 of squashfs released in January, 2007.

http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/

WinGZip is an small freeware utility for working with files produced by gzip utility (usually it’s files with .gz or .tgz extension) and also create such files. Main features include the compressing, decompressing and testing the integrity of gzip files.

http://www.irnis.net/soft/wingzip/

This nice post on the CodeGuru web site does Gzip compression to and from memory, instead of to and from files.

http://codeguru.com/algorithms/GzipHelper.html

Xceed Streaming Compression for .NET is an efficient and lightweight data compression class library for Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET. It can process any size byte array with ease and provides a true .NET pass-through stream object for automatically compressing or decompressing any .NET stream’s data on the fly. It supports the GZip, Zlib, Deflate and Deflate64 compression formats.

http://www.xceedsoft.com/products/StreaNet/

Xceed Zip for .NET Compact Framework is a data compression and all-purpose file manipulation class library for creating mobile apps. It provides flexible zip, gzip and streaming data compression capabilities for compact applications created with Visual Studio .NET 2003. The library includes an innovative and extensible filesystem object model that makes zip files as easy to work with as regular files or folders.

http://www.xceedsoft.com/products/ZipNetCF/index.htm

UFUP advertises itself as a “decompression utility that handles common Unix package formats such as bzip2, gzip, and tar.”

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ufup/

Gzip encoding is a great way to serve up your web pages, because all modern browsers can render this format. If you’re creating pages with PHP4, it turns out to be really easy to compress your pages this way and get a bit of speedup.

http://www.desilva.biz/php/zlib.html?s=f673e090fe49618fa07ba2e8fc95d971

This product compresses your web pages using the gzip format, which is readable by virtually every modern browser. Compressing the pages this way can do a lot to improve your page loading times.

Version 2.0 is shipping in April, 2003.

http://www.atompark.com/products/html2zip.htm

mgzip is a program that makes use of SMP machines and zlib to use as many processors as you have to quickly compress files into gzip compatible format. mgzip only compresses; gunzip must be used to uncompress the resultant file. I have been able to compress files three times faster than standard gzip on a 4 processor Alpha 4100 using three worker threads. Currently, mgzip will compile and run on Digital Unix 4.0[BD], Linux with a suitable pthread library, and AIX 4.3. Porting to other Unices with pthread libraries should be an easy task, and may be as simple as compiling.

http://www.lemley.net/mgzip.html

This wrapper class provides you with simple access to the gzip compression methods in zlib. You can compress and decopress to/from memory (including strings) to files. Looks promising. Release 1.1 was released 12/2002, although I can’t tell what if anything has changed.

http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/cgzip.asp

IP*Works! Zip allows developers to easily integrate compression and decompression functionality into web or desktop applications using popular file and data compression standards including Zip, Tar, Gzip and Jar standards for compression. All IP*Works! Zip components have been built from the ground up entirely in native .NET and Java code, combining exceptional speed, excellent data compression, and extreme portability across platforms.

The components feature password support, file deletion within an archive, streaming compression and decompression, and more. IP*Works! Zip is currently available as fully-managed 100% C# .NET components, or pure Java beans.

http://www.nsoftware.com/products/ipworkszip.aspx

#ziplib (SharpZipLib, formerly NZipLib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. It is implemented as an assembly (installable in the GAC), and thus can easily be incorporated into other projects (in any .NET language). The creator of #ziplib put it this way: “I’ve ported the zip library over to C# because I needed gzip/zip compression and I didn’t want to use libzip.dll or something like this. I want all in pure C#.”

Visitor Samuel L. had this to say Extremely useful and well written, well done, great that is open source.

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Default.aspx

GZIPSite is a tool that can compress your web site and allow it to load as much as 50% faster.

http://www.applet.dk/

This is apparently part of a *NIX manual. Teaches you about our good friends tar, gzip, and bzip2.

http://ctssn.com/linux/lesson8.html

The Wikipedia entry for Gzip. Very short with just a couple of links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip

The gzip technical specification in HTML, by L. Peter Deutsch. This document is the basis for RFC 1952. Includes sample CRC code

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc-gzip.html

Easy-GZ is a compression tool which allows extremely tight compression and quick decompression. Based on the GZip standard and optimized for the Macintosh platform, an easy-to-use, effective GZ compressor has finally been brought to the Mac OS. Is this software free or not? I’m putting it in the free category - if you find out otherwise please send me an email.

http://www.komkon.org/~stiles/easy-gz/index.html

Peter Deutsch’s description of the GZIP file format.

http://DataCompression.info/ArchiveFormats/gzip.txt

The source repository for gzip.

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/

The gzip technical specification in US size PostScript, by L. Peter Deutsch.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc1952.ps

The gzip technical specification in ASCII, by L. Peter Deutsch. This document is the basis for RFC 1952.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc1952.txt

This ftp site has copies of Zoo, ARC, gzip, and zip, in some cases for multiple platforms.

ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/

Links and information about MacGzip

http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/~spd/gzip/

Greenleaf sells ArchiveLib, an archiving library that supports both Zip and a proprietary format

http://www.greenleafsoftware.com