<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Robin Fairbairns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk">Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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is there no "config/make"-type path for the lzma tools?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It used to be. Now however we have xz and if I remember correctly TL2009 should come in this format. xz (<a href="http://tukaani.org/xz/">http://tukaani.org/xz/</a>) compiled on MacOSX SL without any problems and right now lzma on my system(s) is no more than symlink to xz</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Victor</div><div><br></div><div>I experimented with lzma in 2008 and found that compression in the distribution was not the tightest; decompressing and recompressing with -9 switch reduced the size - but huge files with -9 take eternity to compress/decompress</div>
<div><br></div><div>Victor </div></div>========================<br>Victor Ivrii, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto<br><a href="http://www.math.toronto.edu/ivrii">http://www.math.toronto.edu/ivrii</a><br>