    LZMA Utils - legacy branch
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    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>.