The Quantum compression format is a little-known data compression method created by David Stafford of Cinematronics, LLC. It was licensed to Borland, Microsoft and Novell. Quantum is one of the possible compression methods in a Microsoft Windows CAB archive. Quantum uses an extended LZ compression algorithm. Quantum archive files are named with the filename extension .Q by convention.
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