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diff --git a/archivers/xz-utils/DESCR b/archivers/xz-utils/DESCR deleted file mode 100644 index 180c2d116ee..00000000000 --- a/archivers/xz-utils/DESCR +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -LZMA is a general purporse compression algorithm designed by Igor -Pavlov as part of 7-Zip. It provides high compression ratio while -keeping the decompression speed fast. - -XZ Utils are an attempt to make LZMA compression easy to use on -free (as in freedom) operating systems. This is achieved by providing -tools and libraries which are similar to use than the equivalents -of the most popular existing compression algorithms. - -XZ Utils consist of a few relatively separate parts: - * liblzma is an encoder/decoder library with support for several - filters (algorithm implementations). The primary filter is - LZMA. - * libzfile (or whatever the name will be) enables reading from - and writing to gzip, bzip2 and LZMA compressed and uncompressed - files with an API similar to the standard ANSI-C file I/O. - [ NOTE: libzfile is not implemented yet. ] - * xz command line tool has almost identical syntax than gzip - and bzip2. It makes LZMA easy for average users, but also - provides advanced options to finetune the compression settings. - * A few shell scripts make diffing and grepping LZMA compressed - files easy. The scripts were adapted from gzip and bzip2. |