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+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.47.16.
+.TH MINILZIP "1" "January 2022" "minilzip 1.13" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+minilzip \- reduces the size of files
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B minilzip
+[\fI\,options\/\fR] [\fI\,files\/\fR]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Minilzip is a test program for the compression library lzlib, fully
+compatible with lzip 1.4 or newer.
+.PP
+Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one
+of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel\-Ziv\-Markov
+chain\-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format and provides a 3 factor integrity
+checking to maximize interoperability and optimize safety. Lzip can compress
+about as fast as gzip (lzip \fB\-0\fR) or compress most files more than bzip2
+(lzip \fB\-9\fR). Decompression speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2.
+Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from a data recovery perspective. Lzip
+has been designed, written, and tested with great care to replace gzip and
+bzip2 as the standard general\-purpose compressed format for unix\-like
+systems.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
+display this help and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
+output version information and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-trailing\-error\fR
+exit with error status if trailing data
+.TP
+\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-member\-size=\fR<bytes>
+set member size limit in bytes
+.TP
+\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-stdout\fR
+write to standard output, keep input files
+.TP
+\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decompress\fR
+decompress
+.TP
+\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR
+overwrite existing output files
+.TP
+\fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-recompress\fR
+force re\-compression of compressed files
+.TP
+\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-keep\fR
+keep (don't delete) input files
+.TP
+\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-match\-length=\fR<bytes>
+set match length limit in bytes [36]
+.TP
+\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output=\fR<file>
+write to <file>, keep input files
+.TP
+\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
+suppress all messages
+.TP
+\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-dictionary\-size=\fR<bytes>
+set dictionary size limit in bytes [8 MiB]
+.TP
+\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-volume\-size=\fR<bytes>
+set volume size limit in bytes
+.TP
+\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-test\fR
+test compressed file integrity
+.TP
+\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
+be verbose (a 2nd \fB\-v\fR gives more)
+.TP
+\fB\-0\fR .. \fB\-9\fR
+set compression level [default 6]
+.TP
+\fB\-\-fast\fR
+alias for \fB\-0\fR
+.TP
+\fB\-\-best\fR
+alias for \fB\-9\fR
+.TP
+\fB\-\-loose\-trailing\fR
+allow trailing data seeming corrupt header
+.TP
+\fB\-\-check\-lib\fR
+compare version of lzlib.h with liblz.{a,so}
+.PP
+If no file names are given, or if a file is '\-', minilzip compresses or
+decompresses from standard input to standard output.
+Numbers may be followed by a multiplier: k = kB = 10^3 = 1000,
+Ki = KiB = 2^10 = 1024, M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20, G = 10^9, Gi = 2^30, etc...
+Dictionary sizes 12 to 29 are interpreted as powers of two, meaning 2^12
+to 2^29 bytes.
+.PP
+The bidimensional parameter space of LZMA can't be mapped to a linear
+scale optimal for all files. If your files are large, very repetitive,
+etc, you may need to use the options \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR and \fB\-\-match\-length\fR
+directly to achieve optimal performance.
+.PP
+To extract all the files from archive 'foo.tar.lz', use the commands
+\&'tar \fB\-xf\fR foo.tar.lz' or 'minilzip \fB\-cd\fR foo.tar.lz | tar \fB\-xf\fR \-'.
+.PP
+Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file
+not found, invalid flags, I/O errors, etc), 2 to indicate a corrupt or
+invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency error (e.g., bug) which
+caused minilzip to panic.
+.PP
+The ideas embodied in lzlib are due to (at least) the following people:
+Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for the
+definition of Markov chains), G.N.N. Martin (for the definition of range
+encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in LZMA), and
+Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI).
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org
+.br
+Lzlib home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzlib.html
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Using lzlib 1.13
+License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
+.br
+This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+The full documentation for
+.B minilzip
+is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
+.B info
+and
+.B minilzip
+programs are properly installed at your site, the command
+.IP
+.B info lzlib
+.PP
+should give you access to the complete manual.