On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:43:46PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 7zip (LZMA) decompresses quickly, and the decompressor text is actually
> smaller than the equivalent for gzip. Quite nice.
>
> What is not nice is the code for the compressor, which is a total mess.
> I have been holding out on implementing LZMA on kernel.org, because
> just as zip (deflate) didn't become common in the Unix world until an
> encapsulation format that handles things expected in the Unix world,
> e.g. streaming, was created (gzip), I don't think LZMA is going to be
> widely used until there is an "lzip" which does the same thing. I
> actually started the work of adding LZMA support to gzip, but then
> realized it would be better if a new encapsulation format with proper
> 64-bit support everywhere was created.
It doesn't handle streaming?
So you can't do: tar c dirname | 7zip dirname.tar.7z ?
--
Len Sorensen
RuggedCom
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