Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Tuesday, 2009-04-07 at 19:43 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Yeah, it's really quite old, but somehow lzma has been living a life in the unknown for quite some time. Well, unknown to me, anyway.
openSUSE switched to lzma in the rpm packages for 11.0, I think it was, so we have been using it. It caused a problem for those attempting to upgrade from 10.3 to 11.0 because the 10.3 rpm program could not uncompress those.
Yep, that's when I first heard of lzma.
I have also considered lzma, but, last time I tried, "less" could not open and display those files. Also, zgrep does not support it. Nor midnight commander - and those are tools I use to open and look into old logs.
I don't know about less, but I've got an lzless and an lzgrep. To me the 50% space saving and the faster decompression is a big win, so I can easily live with lzless and lzgrep. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (10.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org