NAME

Compress::LZMA::External - Compress and decompress using LZMA

SYNOPSIS

use Compress::LZMA::External qw(compress decompress);
my $compressed = compress($raw_data);
my $decompressed = decompress($compressed_data);

# you can also export these:
my $compressed_fast = compress_fast($raw_data);
my $compressed_best = compress_best($raw_data);

DESCRIPTION

The Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm (LZMA) is an data compression algorithm. It compresses very well (better than gzip and bzip2), compresses very slowly (much slower than bzip2) but decompresses relatively quickly.

This module is an interface to the lzma command-line program, available under Ubuntu with 'sudo apt-get install lzma'.

AUTHOR

Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008-9, Leon Brocard

LICENSE

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.