File Compression

Data storage on networked, local, or even RAM storage is often compressed to save space and speed up data transfer. Modern compression standards including Zstd or LZMA, can be faster and compress better than older formats including ZIP DEFLATE.

2026

• 2026-06-15 – CMake Zstd compression
• 2026-06-15 – CMake file(ARCHIVE_EXTRACT) syntax

2025

• 2025-02-18 – GitLab download specific commit archive
• 2025-01-31 – Fortran module file format

2024

• 2024-10-14 – 7-zip LZMA file compression

2022

• 2022-12-15 – macOS terminal SSH locale

2021

• 2021-09-10 – CMake download and extract compressed files
• 2021-04-23 – Extracting zstd archive with tar
• 2021-02-13 – CMake packaging with CPack example

2020

• 2020-07-27 – Python zipfile recursive write

2019

• 2019-09-05 – Numpy can't read .zip files
• 2019-03-05 – read large RINEX files in Python with GeoRINEX

2017

• 2017-12-21 – Identifying file type without extension
• 2017-08-24 – LZIP LZMA benchmarks Tar archives

2016

• 2016-06-28 – 7zip & move recursively