Editor: WinGZip is an small freeware utility for working with files produced by gzip utility (usually it's files with .gz or .tgz extension) and also create such files. Main features include the compressing, decompressing and testing the integrity of gzip files.
The gzip (GNU zip) is an command line driven compression utility with excellent compression, free from patented algorithms and currently very popular on the Internet. gzip is not archiving utility, i.e. its can't roll up several Files Together. It simply compress the specified file.
The format of the .gz files generated by gzip and their compression alogrithm (deflate) is described in RFCs (Request For Comments) 1951 and 1952. More information about gzip, you can find on it homepage at gzip.org.
