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diff --git a/archivers/p7zip/pkg-descr b/archivers/p7zip/pkg-descr index 92d718dd3885..279a1a8f0fc9 100644 --- a/archivers/p7zip/pkg-descr +++ b/archivers/p7zip/pkg-descr @@ -1,7 +1,18 @@ -p7zip is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe (command line -version of 7zip, see www.7-zip.org) for Unix. 7-Zip is a -file archiver with highest compression ratio. Since 4.10, -p7zip (like 7-zip) supports little-endian and big-endian -machines. +p7zip is a Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver with high compression +ratio (www.7-zip.org) with lots of features: + +* 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL +* High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression + o Unicode file names + o Variable dictionary size (up to 4 GB) + o Compressing speed: about 1 MB/s on 2 GHz CPU + o Decompressing speed: about 10-20 MB/s on 2 GHz CPU +* Supported formats: + o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR + o Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB + and NSIS +* For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is + 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip +* Self-extracting capability for 7z format WWW: http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ |