On Sunday 02 December 2007, Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Actually, I *was* really impressed to see the size decrease from 5.6MB > > to 3.6MB, when going from bzip2 to lzma compression on the coreutils > > tarball. > > The algorithm's clearly doing better, but I've not seen much use of lmza > in the wild. On the distros I tried (Fedora, Ubuntu) it was easier to > find 7zip packages than lmza. Is .7z a more widespread archive format?
lzma is not an archive format. 7z is. 7z allows a choice of compression algorithms, but it defaults to lzma. check out the wikipedia articles for the technologies in question as they're pretty good. -mike
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