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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-06 11:33:36 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-06 11:33:36 +0000
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Adding upstream version 1.3.upstream/1.3
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
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@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. Clzip is in fact a C language version
of lzip, intended for embedded devices or systems lacking a C++
compiler.
+If you ever need to recover data from a damaged lzip file, try the
+lziprecover program.
+
Clzip replaces every file given in the command line with a compressed
version of itself, with the name "original_name.lz". Each compressed
file has the same modification date, permissions, and, when possible,
@@ -28,11 +31,11 @@ or more compressed files. The result is the concatenation of the
corresponding uncompressed files. Integrity testing of concatenated
compressed files is also supported.
-Clzip can produce multimember files and safely recover, with lziprecover,
-the undamaged members in case of file damage. Clzip can also split the
-compressed output in volumes of a given size, even when reading from
-standard input. This allows the direct creation of multivolume
-compressed tar archives.
+Clzip can produce multi-member files and safely recover, with
+lziprecover, the undamaged members in case of file damage. Clzip can
+also split the compressed output in volumes of a given size, even when
+reading from standard input. This allows the direct creation of
+multivolume compressed tar archives.
Clzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size
without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the decompression
@@ -65,7 +68,7 @@ range encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in
LZMA), and Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI and the idea of unzcrash).
-Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.