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On 11/7/2009 23:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:28:52PM +0800, JonY wrote:Hi, Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm.
It is in Ubuntu:<http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/lzip>
The files are under<http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/>. Unfortunately, its not browsable, here is the file list.
\---lzip lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2 lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2 setup.hint
Example:<http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/setup.hint>
Homepage:<http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html>
category: Archive requires: cygwin libgcc1 libstdc++6 sdesc: "Lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm." ldesc: "lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2."
We already have xz. Why do we need this?
cgf
Hi,
lzip and xz are not exactly compatible.
I find that xz has somewhat better compression ratios but lzip has an archive recovery utility.
http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2 http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2 http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/setup.hint
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