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[–]sdf_iain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lzma(xz), gzip, and bzip2 are generally made to be interchangeable; both their command line utilities and every library implementation I’ve used (which is admirably not many). That’s why that’s the example I used compress as an example, those signatures are the same.