The purpose of LZMA utils is to make the usage of LZMA compression
easy on *NIX based systems. The average compression ratio is usually
30% better than 'gzip --best' and 15% better than 'bzip2 --best'.
Some files can be compressed even over 50% smaller than with gzip.
(read DESCR for more...)
thanks to todd@ for testing on 7 archs, and to everyone else who tested.
help/ok naddy@, ok alek@, and before the latest tweaks: ok todd@