lzop is a file compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of some compression ratio. lzop uses the LZO library for compression services.
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In this version, the first in five years, the Autoconf build
system has been completely updated, large file support
has been enabled, and a few other things have been
improved.
