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gzip GNU Zip is a file compression format which the GNU project invented because compress(1)? was ProprietarySoftware?. As is often the case1?, it was better than the proprietary program which it was designed to replace.

See gzip(1), gunzip(1), compress(1)?.

1? fiasco (a non-proprietary reimplementation of L4, Linux (as opposed to UNIX),