Saturday, 24 July 2010

Programming Zip in C#: Long Live Gzip!

GzipStream
DeflateStream

Not sufficient for files in folder structures, hence

SharpZipLib

Zip Primer - gzip data format is the GNU format for lossless file compression and decompression. LOSSLESS is industry-jargon for being able to restore the original file/image exactly as before. LOSSY compression (allowing for APPROXIMATE restoral) is interesting because it has better compression rates.

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