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MaxiCompress

The Best of Every Compression Algorithm. In general, there is a 15% improvement between ZIP and MXC

File Format

The structure of the file is

DATA [ HEADER [ Length (8 bytes) Rest of header (n-8 bytes) [ Relative name * Length * Compression type : ] ] DATA ]

The Header

The first 8 bytes of the file are the length in little endian format. The length provided includes these 8 bytes. After that there are the file location blocks.

The rest of the header is split with a : character.