LZX is an LZ77 family compression algorithm, a slightly improved version of DEFLATE. It is also the name of a file archiver with the same name. Both were invented by Jonathan Forbes and Tomi Poutanen in the 1990s.
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- Instances of use of the LZX algorithm
- Amiga LZX
- Microsoft Cabinet files
- Microsoft Compressed HTML Help (CHM) files
- Microsoft Reader (LIT) files
- Windows Imaging Format (WIM) files
- CompactOS NTFS file compression
- Xbox Live Avatars
- Decompressing LZX files
- See also
- References
- External links
LZX is an LZ77 family compression algorithm, a slightly improved version of DEFLATE. It is also the name of a file archiver with the same name. Both were invented by Jonathan Forbes and Tomi Poutanen in the 1990s.
==Instances of use of the LZX algorithm== ===Amiga LZX=== LZX was publicly released as an Amiga file archiver in 1995, while the authors were studying at the University of Waterloo in Canada. The software was shareware, which was common for compression software at the time. The registered version contained fixes and improvements that were not available in the evaluation version. In 1997, the authors gave away a free keyfile, which allowed anyone to use the registered version, as they had stopped work on the archiver and stopped accepting registrations.
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