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Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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Thu Apr 23 16:47:39 2015 +0300 (2015-04-23) |
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1 The Lempel-Ziv Markov-chain Algorithm is a compression method based on the
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2 famous LZ77 algorithm, and was first introduced by 7-Zip for use in 7z archives.
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4 Its main characteristics are a very high compression ratio, with high RAM usage,
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5 and fast decompression, with low RAM usage. These properties make it well suited
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6 to embedded uses, such as for ROM (firmware) compression.
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8 This package provides the lzma command line utility, which has a familiar
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9 gzip-like interface.
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