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zstd
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Zstandard (or zstd) is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by
Yann Collet at Facebook. Zstd is the reference implementation in C. Version 1 of
this implementation was released as open-source software on 31 August 2016. [0]
Upstream: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
[000] Index
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* Installation ........................................................... [001]
* Setup .................................................................. [002]
* Usage .................................................................. [003]
* References ............................................................. [004]
[001] Installation
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| $ kiss b zstd |
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[002] Setup
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To use zstd as the package manager's compression method for build tarballs, set
the environment variable KISS_COMPRESS to 'zst'. If zstd will not be used as
the package manager's compression method, no such setup is required.
[003] Usage
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Refer to the manual pages and command help output.
[004] References
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstandard