WinZip VS XZ Utils

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• Linux masterrace in a nutshell

  You're having a breakdown. Relax. I'm just trying to have a conversation with you. Nothing personal to get emotional. Here are some resources. For tar, for gz, for xz, for webp, for 7z, for zstd, etc. But, some file extensions were developed for POSIX-like system and how do you expect them to work on windows 10 natively? Thankfully, the community has made it work even tho. It's like me crying over "can you run... Source: over 2 years ago

• Searching Compressed Space

  Thank you for the links but the https://tukaani.org/xz/ link essentially sent me back to python's lmza module and a slightly different lzmaffi library both of which don't seem to have options for reading the dictionary. I do understand this is low-level stuff coded in C/C++ but I wondered if any one made the abstraction to read this data also. Maybe I'll need to make a "script" to read this data... 😑️ this is... Source: about 3 years ago

• Searching Compressed Space

  These libraries are themselves wrappers of low-level libraries, primarily for performance considerations (as they are almost always coded in C). If you really want to dig into the structure of those formats, you should rather investigate the possibilities of these low-level libraries. Like https://tukaani.org/xz/ for xz/lzma, or https://zlib.net/ for lzw. Source: about 3 years ago