Compression tools Compared

[Tom Wilson]

On Saturday 13 August 2005 11:55 am, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Saturday 13 August 2005 09:04 am, Tom Wilson wrote:
[snips]
> >
> > The 7z and LZMA are the from the 7-zip compression program.  I love this
> > zip program!  I use it on winders and linux.  I found it one day when I
> > was sick of messing with winzip on a lusers desktop at work.  Now 7-zip
> > is on all the desktops and my personal machines too.
>
> For some reason, under gentoo, when emerging (installing) 7za, lzma does
> not get installed. Perhaps not even built. However, the url I mention,
> provides a stand-alone, compilable tool.
>
> Cheers.
>
> P.S. lzma kicks the feathers out of 7z and 7-zip.... :')

Hrrmm.  Strange that it doesn't.  LZMA is the default and general compression 
method of 7z format.  And both 7-zip program and lzma compression method are 
under the GPL.  Though other compression methods can be used with 7-zip.

--
Tom Wilson