lzip version
1.9 has been ported (1/18/2010) to OS/2. This is a lossless file
compressor that is almost as fast as gzip, and compresses better than
bzip2.
"lzip v1.9 OS/2
Lzip is a lossless file 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 was written by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
Lzip implements a simplified version of the LZMA algorithm. The original
LZMA algorithm was designed by Igor Pavlov.
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By Elbert Pol.