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  • verb transitive, computing To compress using the gzip program.

Etymologies

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From the name of the software program, originally short for GNU zip.

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  • Other speed-boosters include "gzip," which compresses your Web site's files (using any easy-to-find compression software) and ensures your CSS and javascript code has no redundancies or inelegant loops.

    The Latest Tricks For Getting Found Online 2010

  • For the step where you need to backup your Database, I wanted to follow the third option, but I don't have the required "gzip" ratio button option.

    phpBB.com 2010

  • Note: Uses 'gzip' routine, not MS 'deflate' routine

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows VinylFox 2009

  • Contains ( "gzip")) responseStream = new GZipStream (responseStream, CompressionMode.

    ASP 101 News 2009

  • You can apply general purpose compression, such as gzip, to the data.

    Ryan Tomayko stuartcheshire.org 2009

  • Contains ( "gzip")) responseStream = new GZipStream (responseStream, CompressionMode.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2009

  • ` file `. match ( "gzip") and if that is true then possibly using popen with context?

    eggheadcafe.com articles 2010

  • ` file `. match ( "gzip") and if that is true then possibly using popen with context?

    eggheadcafe.com articles 2010

  • Looks like it's a standalone web proxy page ad/gif/popup blocker combined with a gzip compressor, and other nifty bits.

    UFies.org: Software Archives 2010

  • By Faré, Tue 13th Jan 2009 @ 11:51 am lzma makes total sense for long-term archiving, however, even more so than gzip or bzip2, it probably requires either having a very big block size how many megabytes? maybe 1MB from what squashfs experiments suggest.

    Snell-Pym » Backup system progress update 2009

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