LZMA Utils - legacy branch
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Introduction
LZMA Utils is an attempt to provide LZMA compression to POSIX-like
systems. The idea is to have a gzip-like command line tool and
a zlib-like library, which would make it easy to adapt the new
compression technology to existing applications.
This release
This is a stable release from the legacy branch of LZMA Utils. This
contains a limited gzip-like command line tool, decoding-only library
with zlib-like API, and some helper scripts for grepping and diffing.
The legacy branch gets only bug fixes. It is maintained until the new
code base becomes stable.
Future
The current LZMA_Alone file format will be replaced with a new .lzma
format. The new format fixes various problems the LZMA_Alone format
such as lack of magic bytes and integrity check. The new tools will
transparently support the files in the old format, but the old tools
will never support the new format files.
lzmainfo will be gone. "lzma -l" i.e. "lzma --list" will replace it.
It's like "gzip -l" but for .lzma files. The output format will be
different from gzip and lzmainfo.
liblzmadec will be gone. It will be replaced with liblzma, which
supports also compression and many other things.
lzmadec will use liblzma instead of liblzmadec. lzmadec will support
giving the filenames to decode on the command line, and support
memory usage limitting.
Contact
The preferred way to contact is joining #tukaani on the Freenode
IRC network, and talk to Larhzu. Alternatively, you can email to
<lasse.collin@tukaani.org>.
