gZip questions

[Anonymous]

Hi, everyone this is a kind of weird question I just do not know the answer.

1. What is gzip?
2. Can you compress any thing with gzip maybe even flash?

I want to compress flash files so I can do a no cache thing, with out killing my monthly bandwidth.
So if you know of a way to do this with php please let me know

 

[gesf]

Gzip

A compression utility designed to replace 'compress'. Much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms are its main advantages over compress. Gzip decompresses files created by gzip, compress, or pack; it detects the input format automatically. Gzip produces files with a .gz extension.

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