>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Doug> If you read the lzma changelogs, it appears to imply that newer
Doug> ones won't be able to read older formats. The changelog
Doug> specifically states if a user they are handling the issue
Doug> "gracefully" by telling the user to upgrade or downgrade their
Doug> lzma.

My understanding is that the new utils will be able to uncompress
current archives, but will not be able to create them and also will
be unable to convert current archives to the new format w/o a full
(and time-consuming) uncompress/compress cycle.

-JimC
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