On 2011-08-12 Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> the GNU core utils come with an xz command
Minor correction: GNU coreutils doesn't include compression tools.
GNU gzip is its own package and so are bzip2 (bzip.org) and xz
(tukaani.org).
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On 2011-08-04 Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2011-08-04, Lasse Collin wrote:
> > Using bits from the end of stream magic doesn't make sense, because
> > then one would be forced to finish the stream. Using the bits from
> > the block header magic means that one must add a
d list
etc. Keeping a list of 2^31-1 files will then need 100 GiB of RAM.
While it might be OK in some situations, I hope such archives won't
become common. ;-) Even if the number of files is limited to
Integer.MAX_VALUE, it can be good to think about the memory usage
of the data structures used
On 2011-08-04 Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2011-08-03, Lasse Collin wrote:
> > I looked at the APIs and code in Commons Compress to see how XZ
> > support could be added. I was especially looking for details where
> > one would need to be careful to make different compressors be
I
would prefer depending on org.tukaani.xz because then there is
just one code base to keep up to date.
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