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libfm: define tar.xz for xarchiver
author Xander Ziiryanoff <psychomaniak@xakep.ru>
date Sun Oct 11 13:59:02 2015 +0200 (2015-10-11)
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al@17992 1 The Lempel-Ziv Markov-chain Algorithm is a compression method based on the
al@17992 2 famous LZ77 algorithm, and was first introduced by 7-Zip for use in 7z archives.
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al@17992 4 Its main characteristics are a very high compression ratio, with high RAM usage,
al@17992 5 and fast decompression, with low RAM usage. These properties make it well suited
al@17992 6 to embedded uses, such as for ROM (firmware) compression.
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al@17992 8 This package provides the lzma command line utility, which has a familiar
al@17992 9 gzip-like interface.