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+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>.
+