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<sect1 id="ch-system-lzma" role="wrap">
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  <title>LZMA-Utils-&lzma-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma">
    <primary sortas="a-LZMA-Utils">LZMA-Utils</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The LZMA-Utils package contains programs for compressing and
    decompressing files. Compressing text files with <command>LZMA-Utils</command>
    yields a much better compression percentage than with the traditional
    <command>gzip</command>.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of LZMA-Utils</title>

    <para os="a">Prepare LZMA-Utils for compilation:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para os="e">Install the programs:</para>

<screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-lzma" role="content">
    <title>Contents of LZMA-Utils</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>lzcat (link to lzma), lzcmp, lzdiff, lzegrep, lzfgrep, lzgrep,
        lzless, lzma, lzmadec, lzmainfo, lzmore, and unlzma (link to lzma).</seg>
        <seg>liblzmadec.a, liblzmadec.la, liblzmadec.so, liblzmadec.so.0, and
         liblzmadec.so.0.0.0</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="lzcat">
        <term><command>lzcat</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Decompresses to standard output</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzcat">
            <primary sortas="b-lzcat">lzcat</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lzcmp">
        <term><command>lzcmp</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Compares lzma compressed files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzcmp">
            <primary sortas="b-lzcmp">lzcmp</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lzdiff">
        <term><command>lzdiff</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Compares lzma compressed files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzdiff">
            <primary sortas="b-lzdiff">lzdiff</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lzegrep">
        <term><command>lzegrep</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on lzma compressed files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzegrep">
            <primary sortas="b-lzegrep">lzegrep</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lzfgrep">
        <term><command>lzfgrep</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>fgrep</command> on lzma compressed files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzfgrep">
            <primary sortas="b-lzfgrep">lzfgrep</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lzgrep">
        <term><command>lzgrep</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>grep</command> on lzma compressed files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzgrep">
            <primary sortas="b-lzgrep">lzgrep</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lzless">
        <term><command>lzless</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>less</command> on lzma files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzless">
            <primary sortas="b-lzless">lzless</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lzma">
        <term><command>lzma</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Compresses lzma files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzma">
            <primary sortas="b-lzma">lzma</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lzmadec">
        <term><command>lzmadec</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Decompresses lzma files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzmadec">
            <primary sortas="b-lzmadec">lzmadec</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lzmainfo">
        <term><command>lzmainfo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Shows information about the lzma file.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzmainfo">
            <primary sortas="b-lzmainfo">lzmainfo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lzmore">
        <term><command>lzmore</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>more</command> on lzma files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzmore">
            <primary sortas="b-lzmore">lzmore</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="unlzma">
        <term><command>unlzma</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Uncompresses lzma files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma unlzma">
            <primary sortas="b-unlzma">unlzma</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="liblzmadec">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">liblzmadec*</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>The library implements the Improved and optimized
          version of LZ77 algorithm</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma liblzmadec">
            <primary sortas="c-liblzmadec*">liblzmadec*</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>