Re: [Bug-tar] Lzip support in GNU tar 1.23

[Tim Kientzle]

Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Also the lzip manual 
> (http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#File-Format) 
> describes the file format:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> A lzip file consists of a series of "members" (compressed data sets). 
> The members simply appear one after another in the file, with no 
> additional information before, between, or after them.
>
> Each member has the following structure:
>
> +--+--+--+--+----+----+=============+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
>
> | ID string | VN | DS | Lzma stream | CRC32 |   Data size   |  Member 
> size  |
> +--+--+--+--+----+----+=============+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 

Out of curiosity, can the LZMA stream data here be
decompressed/compressed with liblzma from XZ utils?

http://tukaani.org/xz/

The biggest problem I have with LZMA right now is
that there seem to be a lot of incompatible
compression algorithms and file formats all using
the same name.  It's very confusing.

Tim