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Date: 2007nov2
OS: Linux
Level: Beginner

Q.  What are the Linux compression commands?

A.  You can use:

	Creating	Extracting	Purpose
	--------	----------	-------

	gzip		gunzip		Good compression
	zip		unzip		Windows compatible compression
	bzip2		bunzip2		Great compression for big files
	compress	uncompress	Obsolete

   See man pages for more info
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