The real question is why they would keep three formats. gzip is useful as it's available pretty much everywhere in the default install, even on quite old systems, so anyone can use it. xz provides the ...

found a mbox-formatted archive that i really want to read... so i searched this group & found out about bzip2. found and downloaded this windows version bzip2-102-x86-win32.exe , then tried to bunzip2 ...

You can examine the contents of compressed files on Linux systems without uncompressing the files or changing them in any way. This post explains the commands for doing that and the types of ...

A variety of Mac applications compress files, but two simple commands native to macOS fulfill the same functionality–often more quickly and for less expense. macOS possesses a number of Terminal ...