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{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Compression
|extensions={{ext|lzma}}
|mimetypes={{mimetype|application/x-lzma}}
}}
'''LZMA_Alone''' is a compressed file format that uses [[LZMA]] compression. It may be more commonly known as simply '''LZMA''' or '''.lzma format''', but note that it is a file format, and not quite the same thing as the raw [[LZMA]] compressed data format.

LZMA_Alone is considered to be deprecated, in favor of [[XZ]]. Other LZMA-based alternatives include [[7z]] and [[Lzip]].

== Format ==
LZMA_Alone files have a 13-byte header.

== Identification ==
There is no signature, and no ''reliable'' way to identify LZMA_Alone files just by looking at the header. That said, it is common for them to start with bytes <code>5D 00 00</code>.

== Specifications ==
* [http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.5.tar.gz XZ Utils source] → doc/lzma-file-format.txt

== Software ==
* [http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html LZMA SDK]
* [http://tukaani.org/xz/ XZ Utils]: xz (with appropriate options), lzma, unlzma, lzcat

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-'''LZMA_Alone''' is a compressed file format that uses [[LZMA]] compression. It may be more commonly known as simply '''LZMA''' or '''.lzma format''', but note that it is a file format, and not quite the same thing as the raw [[LZMA]] compressed data format.
+'''LZMA_Alone''', also known as '''.lzma format''', is a compressed file format that uses [[LZMA]] compression. It is sometimes simply called '''LZMA''' or '''lzma''', but that can be misleading, because "LZMA" more commonly means the raw [[LZMA]] compressed data format.
-LZMA_Alone is considered to be deprecated, in favor of [[XZ]]. Other LZMA-based alternatives include [[7z]] and [[Lzip]].
+LZMA_Alone is deprecated, in favor of [[XZ]]. Other LZMA-based alternatives include [[7z]] and [[Lzip]].
 == Format ==
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 == Identification ==
-There is no signature, and no ''reliable'' way to identify LZMA_Alone files just by looking at the header. That said, it is common for them to start with bytes <code>5D 00 00</code>.
+There is no signature, and no simple way to identify LZMA_Alone files just by looking at the header. That said, it is common for them to start with bytes <code>5D 00 00</code>.
-The <code>lzmainfo</code> utility from XZ Utils may help with identification.
+The <code>lzmainfo</code> utility from XZ Utils can help with identification.
 == Specifications ==
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 ** <code>lzmainfo</code>
 ** liblzma

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 == Software ==
 * [http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html LZMA SDK]
-* [http://tukaani.org/xz/ XZ Utils]: xz (with appropriate options), lzma, unlzma, lzcat
+* [http://tukaani.org/xz/ XZ Utils]: