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+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.49.2.
+.TH LUNZIP "1" "January 2024" "lunzip 1.14" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+lunzip \- decompressor for the lzip format
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B lunzip
+[\fI\,options\/\fR] [\fI\,files\/\fR]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Lunzip is a decompressor for the lzip format written in C. Its small size
+makes it well suited for embedded devices or software installers that need
+to decompress files but don't need compression capabilities. Lunzip is
+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 to maximize interoperability. The
+maximum dictionary size is 512 MiB so that any lzip file can be decompressed
+on 32\-bit machines. Lzip provides accurate and robust 3\-factor integrity
+checking. 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.
+.PP
+Lunzip provides a 'low memory' mode able to decompress any file using as
+little memory as 50 kB, irrespective of the dictionary size used to
+compress the file. To activate it, specify the size of the output buffer
+with the option \fB\-\-buffer\-size\fR and lunzip will use the decompressed
+file as dictionary for distances beyond the buffer size. Of course, the
+larger the difference between the buffer size and the dictionary size, the
+more accesses to disk are needed and the slower the decompression is.
+This 'low memory' mode only works when decompressing to a regular file
+and is intended for systems without enough memory (RAM + swap) to keep
+the whole dictionary at once.
+.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\-c\fR, \fB\-\-stdout\fR
+write to standard output, keep input files
+.TP
+\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decompress\fR
+decompress (this is the default)
+.TP
+\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR
+overwrite existing output files
+.TP
+\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-keep\fR
+keep (don't delete) input files
+.TP
+\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-list\fR
+print (un)compressed file sizes
+.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\-t\fR, \fB\-\-test\fR
+test compressed file integrity
+.TP
+\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-buffer\-size=\fR<bytes>
+set output buffer size in bytes
+.TP
+\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
+be verbose (a 2nd \fB\-v\fR gives more)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-empty\-error\fR
+exit with error status if empty member in file
+.TP
+\fB\-\-marking\-error\fR
+exit with error status if 1st LZMA byte not 0
+.TP
+\fB\-\-loose\-trailing\fR
+allow trailing data seeming corrupt header
+.PP
+If no file names are given, or if a file is '\-', lunzip 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...
+Buffer sizes 12 to 29 are interpreted as powers of two, meaning 2^12 to
+2^29 bytes.
+.PP
+To extract all the files from archive 'foo.tar.lz', use the commands
+\&'tar \fB\-xf\fR foo.tar.lz' or 'lunzip \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 command\-line options, I/O errors, etc), 2 to
+indicate a corrupt or invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency
+error (e.g., bug) which caused lunzip to panic.
+.PP
+The ideas embodied in lunzip are due to (at least) the following people:
+Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrei 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
+Lunzip home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lunzip.html
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+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.