LZMA

File Format
Name	LZMA
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression LZMA
Released	2001

LZMA (Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm) is a general-purpose data compression algorithm and compressed data format. It's described as being an advanced form of LZ77.

Specifications

No formal specification seems to exist, only source code. The Wikipedia article has some details about it (probably in violation of their rules about original research, so it might get removed). The Lzip manual also has some information about it.

• Lzip Manual: Stream format

Software

• LZMA SDK

Related formats

• LZMA_Alone, Lzip, 7z: Compressed file formats that use LZMA
• LZMA2: An improved version of the data format. See also XZ.

Links

• Wikipedia article