See [0] about implementations; OpenBSD even had 'gzip' aliased to? compress. It appears that the lz77/deflate gzip is a GNUism.
Nothing bad about that - but I think although the current norm dominates, it is only the current norm and people can shift. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip -- Tai Chi Minh Ralph Eastwood [email protected]
