Useful for encoding black and white images. Supposedly saves all formatting. Converts formatting to instructions that other programs can read and interpret. Used between incompatible word-processing programs. Sam runs under the X-Windows System.
Application programs can use the tags to accept or ignore fields, depending on their capabilities.
Select this only if the destination program cannot read any other available file format. Gzip is a ompression utility. Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv LZ77 compression. Compressed files can be restored to their original form using gzip -d or gunzip or zcat. It adds commands to simplify typesetting and lets the user concentrate on the structure of the text rather than on formatting commands.