On Apr 19, 2012 10:09 AM, "Guillem Jover" <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > Continuing with my intention to try to match my current dissatisfaction > with the project with my dedication to it, I've just orphaned the ppmd > package. > > The package just got ported recently to 64-bit systems so builds for > those systems need to be hand-held for now as that's not reflected > on P-a-s yet. > > The package description is: > ppmd predicts the probability of a given character based on the > characters that immediately precede it (as all PPM compressors, > see also Markov Chains and Context Modeling). This archiver > should be better than zip, gzip, bzip2, zzip, szip and ppmz(2) > at compressing files. > > regards, > guillem
FYI, ppmd (at least variants H and I) is used in 7zip. Similar code to read/write 7zip is found in libarchive (and thus bsdtar). Libarchive has been ported to a wide range of systems. I think the same is true for 7zip. So there are alternatives. ~ Andres
