What are the synctex.gz files and what they need for?

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I think the title is self explanatory but neither here (Egad! What are all those files?) nor here (File extensions of LaTeX-related files) I found a detailed answer

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Duplicate of What exactly is SyncTeX?. See also Why does LaTeX gzip the synctex file?. – Alan Munn Sep 25 '13 at 16:48
Above link is to OLD 1.16 (2008-2011) since 2011 its hosted at GitHub version1.22 can be found at http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/web2c/synctexdir/ – Oct 11 '18 at 18:59

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