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Is it possible to get specific information about how a file is compressed?

File compression works on the basic idea of assigning commonly recurring chains of strings to a common index of a table where the full string is stored. For example: Input file: foo bar bash baz foo ...
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What Linux utility can split a large file into a multi-file archive that can be opened on Windows?

I have a 6GB file which I need to transport on DVDs. I have a Linux system, while the recipient has a Windows system. Is there any way for me to make a multi-part archive to spread the file across two ...