szip

What is szip?

szip is a lossless compression format, similar to zlib, that provides compression libraries to C and C++, as well as being a command line tool. The drawback to szip is that it is larger than zlib and also takes more memory during compression.

How is szip loaded?

The below can be used to view all of the installations of szip on a particular system, where this example uses Coeus.

$ module avail |& grep "szip"

Utils/szip/2.1.1/gcc-6.3.0

Utils/szip/2.1.1/intel

How is szip used?

To best use szip's libraries in a C or C++ program, refer to szip's example in its repo.

To use szip as a command line tool, the usage is below.

szip [-d] [options] [inputfile [outputfile]]

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