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About the SIX format
SIXEL — DEC SIXEL Graphics
SIXEL is a graphics format developed by DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) for use in terminals and printers. It encodes bitmap images as a series of six-pixel-high bands transmitted as printable ASCII characters, and has seen a resurgence in modern terminal emulators.
Common uses
- Modern terminal emulator image display
- DEC terminal and VT-series printer output
- SSH session image viewing
- Converting images for terminal display
About the TXZ format
TXZ — XZ-compressed TAR Archive
TXZ (also .tar.xz) is a TAR archive compressed with the XZ algorithm, which is based on LZMA2. It provides the highest compression ratios of the common tar formats, making it the preferred choice for official Linux distribution packages (Arch, Fedora, Gentoo). The trade-off is slower compression speed versus gzip or bzip2.
Common uses
- Official Linux distribution package format (e.g., Arch Linux)
- Maximum compression of large software releases
- Distributing firmware and embedded system images
- Archiving large datasets for long-term storage
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How long are my files kept?
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