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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Fri Jan 17 14:38:48 2020 +0100 (2020-01-17) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/lzma/description.txt Fri Jan 17 14:38:48 2020 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ 1.4 +The Lempel-Ziv Markov-chain Algorithm is a compression method based on the 1.5 +famous LZ77 algorithm, and was first introduced by 7-Zip for use in 7z archives. 1.6 + 1.7 +Its main characteristics are a very high compression ratio, with high RAM usage, 1.8 +and fast decompression, with low RAM usage. These properties make it well suited 1.9 +to embedded uses, such as for ROM (firmware) compression. 1.10 + 1.11 +This package provides the lzma command line utility, which has a familiar 1.12 +gzip-like interface.