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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> writes: |
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Doug> If you read the lzma changelogs, it appears to imply that newer |
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Doug> ones won't be able to read older formats. The changelog |
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Doug> specifically states if a user they are handling the issue |
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Doug> "gracefully" by telling the user to upgrade or downgrade their |
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Doug> lzma. |
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My understanding is that the new utils will be able to uncompress |
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current archives, but will not be able to create them and also will |
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be unable to convert current archives to the new format w/o a full |
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(and time-consuming) uncompress/compress cycle. |
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-JimC |
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James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 |
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