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GZ (GZIP, GNU ZIP) uses the same file compression algorithm as regular ZIP. The main plus of ZIP is its ubiquity and support even by those programs that have an indirect relation to archives. The format supports splitting archives into parts, password protection, adding comments. Today it is already difficult to imagine life without this archive format.

The name of the most popular archive format in the world began its long life with PKWare. Below you will find the main reasons to compress files on Mac computers. Another useful feature of many archivers is the ability to set a password for the created archive, after which the user will not be able to open any of the files contained in the archive and, moreover, will not be able to extract these files from it. Thanks to the compression methods, archivers allow reducing the size of files that are added to them. The archiver is a program for the simultaneous packaging of one or any other number of files in order to conveniently copy, send, and store them.