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authormartin <martin>2012-04-20 15:24:29 +0000
committermartin <martin>2012-04-20 15:24:29 +0000
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Rewrite the description, mention 7zip and lzma, drop references to windows
exe names (which probably nobody knows anyway).
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-p7zip is a port of the Windows program 7za.exe.
+p7zip is an archiver to create and extract 7zip archives (.7z).
-7za.exe is a file archiver with the highest compression ratio.
+It uses the lzma compression method (see also the xz library/utils),
+which provides the highest (non content specific) compression ratio.