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GZ is an archive file format developed by The GNU Project. Its name is an acronym for GNU Zipped. The GZ format is an archive file that is compressed by the standard gzip compression algorithm. It can contain either one or several compressed files. Traditionally, this format is used on Unix operating systems and is used here as a standard for file compression. In addition, file decompression utilities for Mac and Windows also recognize this format in the same way as the gzip utility. Often compressed archives of this type have the double extension .tar.gz (or .tgz).

ZIP is one of the most popular and common archive or compressed file formats. The full name is Zipped File and the original name is Compressed ZIP archive file. The ZIP extension, which is used to package or compress files, was developed back in 1989. Its creator was Phil Katz, founder of PKWARE Corporation. Initially, the format was used in the PKZIP program, but now there are many other utilities to work with ZIP files. The ZIP format uses a standard compression type for compression, in which all individual files in the archive are compressed separately.


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