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diff --git a/doc/lzlib.texi b/doc/lzlib.texi index 75cb7ba..462c840 100644 --- a/doc/lzlib.texi +++ b/doc/lzlib.texi @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ @finalout @c %**end of header -@set UPDATED 20 January 2024 -@set VERSION 1.14 +@set UPDATED 19 April 2024 +@set VERSION 1.15-pre1 @dircategory Compression @direntry @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Lzlib currently implements two variants of the LZMA algorithm: fast (used by option @option{-0} of minilzip) and normal (used by all other compression levels). The high compression of LZMA comes from combining two basic, well-proven -compression ideas: sliding dictionaries (LZ77) and markov models (the thing +compression ideas: sliding dictionaries (LZ77) and Markov models (the thing used by every compression algorithm that uses a range encoder or similar order-0 entropy coder as its last stage) with segregation of contexts according to what the bits are used for. @@ -735,7 +735,9 @@ The value of @var{lz_errno} normally comes from a call to @cindex options Minilzip is a test program for the compression library lzlib, compatible -with lzip 1.4 or newer. +(interoperable) with lzip 1.4 or newer. Minilzip is not intended to be +installed because lzip has more features, but minilzip is well tested and +you can use it as your main compressor if so you wish. @uref{http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html,,Lzip} is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one |