<s>
lzip	B-Application
is	O
a	O
free	B-Application
,	O
command-line	B-Application
tool	I-Application
for	O
the	O
compression	O
of	O
data	O
;	O
it	O
employs	O
the	O
Lempel	B-General_Concept
–	I-General_Concept
Ziv	I-General_Concept
–	I-General_Concept
Markov	I-General_Concept
chain	I-General_Concept
algorithm	I-General_Concept
(	O
LZMA	B-General_Concept
)	O
with	O
a	O
user	O
interface	O
that	O
is	O
familiar	O
to	O
users	O
of	O
usual	O
Unix	B-Application
compression	O
tools	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
gzip	B-Application
and	O
bzip2	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Like	O
gzip	B-Application
and	O
bzip2	B-Application
,	O
concatenation	O
is	O
supported	O
to	O
compress	O
multiple	O
files	O
,	O
but	O
the	O
convention	O
is	O
to	O
bundle	O
a	O
file	O
that	O
is	O
an	O
archive	O
itself	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
those	O
created	O
by	O
the	O
tar	B-Application
or	O
cpio	B-Application
Unix	B-Application
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lzip	B-Application
can	O
split	O
the	O
output	O
for	O
the	O
creation	O
of	O
multivolume	O
archives	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
file	O
that	O
is	O
produced	O
by	O
lzip	B-Application
is	O
usually	O
given	O
.lz	B-Application
as	O
its	O
filename	O
extension	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
data	O
is	O
described	O
by	O
the	O
media	B-Application
type	I-Application
application/lzip	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
lzip	B-Application
suite	O
of	O
programs	O
was	O
written	O
in	O
C++	B-Language
and	O
C	B-Language
by	O
Antonio	O
Diaz	O
Diaz	O
and	O
is	O
being	O
distributed	O
as	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
under	O
the	O
terms	O
of	O
version	O
2	O
or	O
later	O
of	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
(	O
GPL	B-License
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
7-Zip	B-Language
was	O
released	O
in	O
2000	O
;	O
a	O
tool	O
employing	O
LZMA	B-General_Concept
first	O
became	O
available	O
on	O
Unix-like	B-Operating_System
operating	I-Operating_System
systems	I-Operating_System
in	O
2004	O
when	O
a	O
port	O
of	O
the	O
command-line	B-Application
version	O
of	O
7-Zip	B-Language
(	O
p7zip	B-Language
)	O
was	O
released	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
same	O
year	O
,	O
the	O
LZMA	B-General_Concept
SDK	B-Application
became	O
available	O
,	O
which	O
included	O
the	O
program	O
called	O
“	O
lzma_alone	O
”	O
;	O
less	O
than	O
a	O
year	O
later	O
,	O
Lasse	O
Collin	O
released	O
LZMA	B-Language
Utils	I-Language
,	O
which	O
at	O
first	O
only	O
consisted	O
of	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
wrapper	O
scripts	O
implementing	O
a	O
gzip-like	O
interface	O
to	O
lzma_alone	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2008	O
,	O
Antonio	O
Diaz	O
Diaz	O
released	O
lzip	B-Application
,	O
which	O
uses	O
a	O
container	O
format	O
with	O
checksums	B-Algorithm
and	O
magic	O
numbers	O
instead	O
of	O
the	O
raw	O
LZMA	B-General_Concept
data	O
stream	O
,	O
providing	O
a	O
complete	O
Unix-style	B-Operating_System
solution	O
for	O
using	O
LZMA	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Nevertheless	O
,	O
LZMA	B-Language
Utils	I-Language
was	O
extended	O
to	O
have	O
similar	O
features	O
and	O
then	O
renamed	O
to	O
XZ	B-Language
Utils	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
lzip	B-Application
is	O
capable	O
of	O
creating	O
archives	O
with	O
independently	O
decompressible	O
data	O
sections	O
called	O
a	O
"	O
multimember	O
archive	O
"	O
(	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
split	O
output	O
for	O
the	O
creation	O
of	O
multivolume	O
archives	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
if	O
the	O
underlying	O
file	O
is	O
a	O
tar	B-Application
archive	I-Application
,	O
this	O
can	O
allow	O
extracting	O
any	O
undamaged	O
files	O
,	O
even	O
if	O
other	O
parts	O
of	O
the	O
archive	O
are	O
damaged	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
for	O
the	O
file	O
format	O
,	O
special	O
emphasis	O
has	O
been	O
put	O
on	O
enabling	O
integrity	O
checks	O
by	O
means	O
of	O
an	O
integrated	O
32-bit	O
checksum	B-Algorithm
for	O
each	O
compressed	O
stream	O
;	O
this	O
is	O
used	O
in	O
combination	O
with	O
the	O
lziprecover	O
program	O
to	O
detect	O
and	O
reconstruct	O
damaged	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
lzip	B-Application
has	O
two	O
parallel	O
interfaces	O
provided	O
in	O
the	O
default	O
distribution	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
combines	O
and	O
into	O
a	O
parallel	O
archiver	O
much	O
like	O
modern	O
archivers	O
like	O
RAR	O
or	O
7-Zip	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
solid	B-General_Concept
compression	I-General_Concept
blocks	O
align	O
with	O
file	O
boundaries	O
,	O
so	O
extracting	O
a	O
file	O
only	O
requires	O
decompressing	O
that	O
particular	O
member	O
block	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
popular	O
Linux	O
distributions	O
,	O
lzip	B-Application
can	O
usually	O
be	O
installed	O
from	O
official	O
package	O
repositories	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cygwin	B-Language
offers	O
lzip	B-Application
as	O
a	O
maintained	O
optional	O
package	O
(	O
Archive	O
category	O
of	O
its	O
setup	O
installer	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
its	O
GNU	B-Application
tar	I-Application
utility	O
program	O
has	O
support	O
for	O
.lz	B-Application
archives	O
(	O
with	O
--lzip	O
option	O
for	O
creation	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MinGW-w64	B-Application
distributes	O
lzip	B-Application
through	O
a	O
maintained	O
package	O
in	O
MSYS2	O
(	O
pacman	O
-S	O
lzip	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lzip	B-Application
is	O
also	O
available	O
for	O
Android	B-Application
in	O
a	O
terminal-interface	O
which	O
was	O
ported	O
by	O
Master-Console	O
Inc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
GNU	B-Application
Autotools	I-Application
support	O
lzip	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Adding	O
dist-lzip	O
to	O
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE	O
will	O
build	O
lzip-ed	O
tarballs	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Versions	O
1.23	O
and	O
newer	O
of	O
GNU	B-Application
tar	I-Application
support	O
using	O
lzip	B-Application
to	O
handle	O
compressed	O
files	O
transparently	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GNOME	O
's	O
archiving	O
tool	O
,	O
Archive	B-Application
Manager	I-Application
,	O
supports	O
lzip	B-Application
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Linux	O
distribution	O
Dragora	O
GNU/Linux	O
-Libre	O
employs	O
lzip	B-Application
for	O
its	O
software	O
packages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lzip	B-Application
is	O
used	O
to	O
distribute	O
the	O
Time	O
Zone	O
Database	O
from	O
IANA	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
GNU	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
Linux	O
kernel	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
European	O
Parliament	O
publishes	O
complete	O
dumps	O
of	O
its	O
database	O
in	O
JSON	O
format	O
compressed	O
with	O
lzip	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lzip	B-Application
is	O
used	O
in	O
NASA	O
's	O
Planetary	B-Application
Data	I-Application
System	I-Application
(	O
PDS	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
