ECM is a utility that converts ECM files, i.e., CD data files with their error correction data losslessly rearranged for better compression, to their original, binary CD format.

UnZip is an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format, also called "zipfiles".

UnZip lists, tests, or extracts files from a .zip archive. The default behaviour (with no options) is to extract into the current directory, and subdirectories below it, all files from the specified zipfile. UnZip recreates the stored directory structure by default.

Blosc is a high performance compressor optimized for binary data. It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() system call. Blosc is meant not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or in-memory, but also to accelerate memory-bound computations.

This package provides the reference implementation of Brotli, a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.

The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932.

Extracts files out of Microsoft Cabinet (.cab) archives

Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip compressed data format (.lz). It can test the integrity of lzip files, extract data from damaged ones, and repair most files with small errors (up to one single-byte error per member) entirely.

Lziprecover is not a replacement for regular backups, but a last line of defence when even the backups are corrupt. It can recover files by merging the good parts of two or more damaged copies, such as can be easily produced by running ddrescue on a failing device.

This package also includes unzcrash, a tool to test the robustness of decompressors when faced with corrupted input.

Shrinkwrap provides a std::streambuf wrapper for various compression formats, including zstd, xz, gzip, and bgzf.

ZZipLib is a library based on zlib for accessing zip files.

ZPAQ is a command-line archiver for realistic situations with many duplicate and already compressed files. It backs up only those files modified since the last update. All previous versions remain untouched and can be independently recovered. Identical files are only stored once (known as de-duplication). Archives can also be encrypted.

ZPAQ is intended to back up user data, not entire operating systems. It ignores owner and group IDs, ACLs, extended attributes, or special file types like devices, sockets, or named pipes. It does not follow or restore symbolic links or junctions, and always follows hard links.

SfArk extractor converts SoundFonts in the compressed legacy sfArk file format to the uncompressed sf2 format.

minizip-ng is a zip manipulation library written in C, forked from the zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.

CBOR is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation. These design goals make it different from earlier binary serializations such as ASN.1 and MessagePack.

minizip-ng is a zip manipulation library written in C, forked from the zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.

Zip is a compression and file packaging/archive utility. Zip is useful for packaging a set of files for distribution, for archiving files, and for saving disk space by temporarily compressing unused files or directories. Zip puts one or more compressed files into a single ZIP archive, along with information about the files (name, path, date, time of last modification, protection, and check information to verify file integrity). An entire directory structure can be packed into a ZIP archive with a single command.

Zip has one compression method (deflation) and can also store files without compression. Zip automatically chooses the better of the two for each file. Compression ratios of 2:1 to 3:1 are common for text files.

SfArkLib is a C++ library for decompressing SoundFont files compressed with the sfArk algorithm.

Zstandard (zstd) is a lossless compression algorithm that combines very fast operation with a compression ratio comparable to that of zlib. In most scenarios, both compression and decompression can be performed in ‘real time’. The compressor can be configured to provide the most suitable trade-off between compression ratio and speed, without affecting decompression speed.

zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered -- that is, not covered by any patents -- lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system. The zlib data format is itself portable across platforms. Unlike the LZW compression method used in Unix compress(1) and in the GIF image format, the compression method currently used in zlib essentially never expands the data. (LZW can double or triple the file size in extreme cases.) zlib's memory footprint is also independent of the input data and can be reduced, if necessary, at some cost in compression.

Archive huge numbers of files, or split massive tar archives into smaller chunks.

Miniz is a lossless data compression library that implements the zlib (RFC 1950) and Deflate (RFC 1951) compressed data format specification standards. It supports the most commonly used functions exported by the zlib library.

GNU Gzip provides data compression and decompression utilities; the typical extension is ".gz". Unlike the "zip" format, it compresses a single file; as a result, it is often used in conjunction with "tar", resulting in ".tar.gz" or ".tgz", etc.

A data compression/decompression library for embedded/real-time systems.

Among its features are:

• Low memory usage (as low as 50 bytes.) It is useful for some cases with less than 50 bytes, and useful for many general cases with less than 300 bytes.

• Incremental, bounded CPU use. It can be used to chew on input data in arbitrarily tiny bites. This is a useful property in hard real-time environments.

• Can use either static or dynamic memory allocation.

(N)compress provides the original compress and uncompress programs that used to be the de facto UNIX standard for compressing and uncompressing files. These programs implement a fast, simple Lempel-Ziv (LZW) file compression algorithm.

bzip2 is a freely available, patent free (see below), high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.

ISA-L is a collection of optimized low-level functions targeting storage applications. ISA-L includes:

• Erasure codes: fast block Reed-Solomon type erasure codes for any encode/decode matrix;

• CRC: fast implementations of cyclic redundancy check. Six different polynomials supported: iscsi32, ieee32, t10dif, ecma64, iso64, jones64;

• Raid: calculate and operate on XOR and P+Q parity found in common RAID implementations;

• Compression: fast deflate-compatible data compression;

• De-compression: fast inflate-compatible data compression;

• igzip: command line application like gzip, accelerated with ISA-L.