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  2. ZIP (file format) - Wikipedia

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    The .ZIP file format was designed by Phil Katz of PKWARE and Gary Conway of Infinity Design Concepts. The format was created after Systems Enhancement Associates (SEA) filed a lawsuit against PKWARE claiming that the latter's archiving products, named PKARC, were derivatives of SEA's ARC archiving system. [3]

  3. Data descriptor - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a data descriptor is a structure containing information that describes data. Data descriptors may be used in compilers , [ 1 ] as a software structure at run time in languages like Ada [ 2 ] or PL/I , or as a hardware structure in some computers such as Burroughs large systems with their descriptors .

  4. List of file signatures - Wikipedia

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    Slob (sorted list of blobs) is a read-only, compressed data store with dictionary-like interface [92] AC ED: ’: 0 Serialized Java Data [93] 43 72 65 61 74 69 76 65 20 56 6F 69 63 65 20 46 69 6C 65 1A 1A 00: Creative Voice File 0 voc Creative Voice file: 2E 73 6E 64.snd: 0 au snd Au audio file format: DB 0A CE 00: 0

  5. ZIP Code Tabulation Area - Wikipedia

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    ZCTAs are generalized area representations of the United States Postal Service (USPS) ZIP code service areas, but are not the same as ZIP codes. Individual USPS ZIP codes can cross state, place, county, census tract, census block group and census block boundaries, so the Census Bureau asserts that "there is no correlation between ZIP codes and ...

  6. Deflate - Wikipedia

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    In computing, Deflate (stylized as DEFLATE, and also called Flate [1] [2]) is a lossless data compression file format that uses a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. It was designed by Phil Katz, for version 2 of his PKZIP archiving tool. Deflate was later specified in RFC 1951 (1996). [3]

  7. zstd - Wikipedia

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    Zstandard is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook. Zstd is the corresponding reference implementation in C, released as open-source software on 31 August 2016.

  8. Open Data Description Language - Wikipedia

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    The Open Data Description Language (OpenDDL) is a generic text-based language that is designed to store arbitrary data in a concise human-readable format.It can be used as a means for easily exchanging information among many programs or simply as a method for storing a program's data in an editable format.

  9. Descriptor - Wikipedia

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    Short Payment Descriptor, a compact data format for an easy exchange of a payment information using modern electronic channels; Data descriptor, a software or hardware structure describing data; Visual descriptors, a representation of visual features in image or video; Security descriptor, a Windows data structure containing security information