Public bug reported:

# Steps to reproduce:

$ lzma -c /usr/share/dict/words > foo

$ lzma -d -c foo > bar
foo:  unknown suffix -- unchanged

$ echo $?
2

# using pipes works
$ lzma -c /usr/share/dict/words | lzma -d -c > bar

# gzip works
$ gzip -c /usr/share/dict/words > foo
$ gzip -d -c foo > bar


# This was possibly fixed here:
http://git.tukaani.org/?p=lzma.git;a=commitdiff;h=8b13a3f20bdca0929cea1d5d5ca26addbbccb8c5
Don't require -S '' when writing to stdout and filename has unknown suffix.

** Affects: lzma (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #700681
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700681

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Title:
  lzma can't decompress a file to stdout without a known suffix

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