LZMA is data compression algorithm based on the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm. It provides high compression ratios and very fast decompression, with minimal memory requirements for decompression. XZ Utils is the latest generation of this software, supplanting the older LZMA Utils, which itself was a friendly fork of the original LZMA SDK. The xz package provides commandline utilities for compression and decompression of XZ and LZMA data, and documentation. The associated liblzma package provides the runtime library and development files for creating applications that use LZMA or XZ compression. The MinGW/MSYS project provides both this native (mingw32) version and an MSYS version of the xz package(s). While the latter is the primary tool from the perspective of the MSYS distribution, the MinGW version is provided as one of the prerequisites for the native (mingw32) basic-bsdtar utility. LZMA is data compression algorithm based on the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm. It provides high compression ratios and very fast decompression, with minimal memory requirements for decompression. XZ Utils is the latest generation of this software, supplanting the older LZMA Utils, which itself was a friendly fork of the original LZMA SDK. The xz package provides commandline utilities for compression and decompression of XZ and LZMA data, and documentation. The associated liblzma package provides the runtime library and development files for creating applications that use LZMA or XZ compression. The MinGW/MSYS project provides both this native (mingw32) version and an MSYS version of the liblzma package(s). While the latter is the primary tool from the perspective of the MSYS distribution, the MinGW version is provided as one of the prerequisites for the native (mingw32) basic-bsdtar utility.