Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar
to the one of gzip or bzip2.
Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm'
(LZMA) stream format, chosen to maximize safety and interoperability.
Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0) or compress most
files more than bzip2 (lzip -9).
Decompression speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2.
Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from a data recovery perspective.
Lzip has been designed, written, and tested with great care to replace
gzip and bzip2 as the standard general-purpose compressed format
for unix-like systems. |
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