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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2008-05-15 16:12:48 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2008-05-15 16:12:48 +0000 |
commit | bd2d913a35df5a223eab385296046922ecdd1d4e (patch) | |
tree | c125f8fe4c2337ada9ee569ceb5c8f9cc4bccf37 /Build/source/utils/lzma/README | |
parent | 93b3db7c8015cf9b3e4970fb154f91d87225c35a (diff) |
rename lzma-utils to lzma, since that is now the upstream name
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diff --git a/Build/source/utils/lzma/README b/Build/source/utils/lzma/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..98301eb4728 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/utils/lzma/README @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ + +LZMA Utils - legacy branch +-------------------------- + +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>. + |