Compression and Archive Formats
Mathematica automatically handles all standard compression and archive formats.
"ZIP" — Windows ZIP archive (.zip)
"GZIP" — Unix gzip compression (.gz)
"TAR" — Unix tar archive (.tar)
"BZIP2" — bzip2 compression format (.bz2)
"Base64" — Base64 ASCII encoding
"UUE" — Unix uuencode format (.uue, .enc)
"WDX" — Wolfram optimized data exchange format (.wdx)
"MX"— Mathematica serialized package (.mx)
"Files" — names of available files
"Elements" — all available elements
FileHash — compute MD5 and other hash codes for files