Lzip
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Lzip
Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm) algorithm designed by Igor Pavlov. The high compression of LZMA comes from combining two basic, well-proven compression ideas: sliding dictionaries (i.e. LZ77/78), and markov models (i.e. the thing used by every compression algorithm that uses a range encoder or similar order-0 entropy coder as its last stage) with segregation of contexts according to what the bits are used for. Lzip is not a replacement for gzip or bzip2, but a complement; which one is best to use depends on user's needs.
Documentation
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/manual/
Related Projects
Licensing
| License | Verified by | Verified on | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPLv3orlater | Kelly Hopkins | 2455466.527 September 2010 |
Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
 Antonio Diaz Diaz | Maintainer |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Download | http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/lzip/ |
| Support | mailto:lzip-bug@nongnu.org | |
| Help | Homepage | http://freshmeat.net/projects/lzip/ |
| Developer | Homepage | https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lzip/ |
| Bug Tracking | Mailing List Info/Archive | http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lzip-bug |
Software prerequisites
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This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 28 January 2009.
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