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author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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date | Mon Mar 14 14:14:36 2016 +0200 (2016-03-14) |
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al@17992 | 1 The Lempel-Ziv Markov-chain Algorithm is a compression method based on the |
al@17992 | 2 famous LZ77 algorithm, and was first introduced by 7-Zip for use in 7z archives. |
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al@17992 | 4 Its main characteristics are a very high compression ratio, with high RAM usage, |
al@17992 | 5 and fast decompression, with low RAM usage. These properties make it well suited |
al@17992 | 6 to embedded uses, such as for ROM (firmware) compression. |
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al@17992 | 8 This package provides the lzma command line utility, which has a familiar |
al@17992 | 9 gzip-like interface. |