| @@ -10,13 +10,16 @@ of the most popular existing compression | | | @@ -10,13 +10,16 @@ of the most popular existing compression |
10 | XZ Utils consist of a few relatively separate parts: | | 10 | XZ Utils consist of a few relatively separate parts: |
11 | * liblzma is an encoder/decoder library with support for several | | 11 | * liblzma is an encoder/decoder library with support for several |
12 | filters (algorithm implementations). The primary filter is | | 12 | filters (algorithm implementations). The primary filter is |
13 | LZMA. | | 13 | LZMA. |
14 | * libzfile (or whatever the name will be) enables reading from | | 14 | * libzfile (or whatever the name will be) enables reading from |
15 | and writing to gzip, bzip2 and LZMA compressed and uncompressed | | 15 | and writing to gzip, bzip2 and LZMA compressed and uncompressed |
16 | files with an API similar to the standard ANSI-C file I/O. | | 16 | files with an API similar to the standard ANSI-C file I/O. |
17 | [ NOTE: libzfile is not implemented yet. ] | | 17 | [ NOTE: libzfile is not implemented yet. ] |
18 | * xz command line tool has almost identical syntax than gzip | | 18 | * xz command line tool has almost identical syntax than gzip |
19 | and bzip2. It makes LZMA easy for average users, but also | | 19 | and bzip2. It makes LZMA easy for average users, but also |
20 | provides advanced options to finetune the compression settings. | | 20 | provides advanced options to finetune the compression settings. |
21 | * A few shell scripts make diffing and grepping LZMA compressed | | 21 | * A few shell scripts make diffing and grepping LZMA compressed |
22 | files easy. The scripts were adapted from gzip and bzip2. | | 22 | files easy. The scripts were adapted from gzip and bzip2. |
| | | 23 | |
| | | 24 | Due to backdoor in 5.6.*, this package is currently called 5.6* but |
| | | 25 | contains 5.4.*. |