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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2025-01-18 06:19:30 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2025-01-18 06:19:30 +0000 |
commit | df83d9d834c31b31b469f71cbdd9d5b98e595697 (patch) | |
tree | 3f43285c99633e5cf66adb46f9a7061f955bf86a /README | |
parent | Releasing debian version 1.15~rc1-1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 1.15.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -28,11 +28,10 @@ alignment between tar members and lzip members. The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability: - * The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data - recovery means. The program lziprecover can repair bit flip errors - (one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files, and - provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked merging - of damaged copies of a file. + * The program lziprecover can repair bit flip errors (one of the most + common forms of data corruption) in lzip files, and provides data + recovery capabilities, including error-checked merging of damaged + copies of a file. * The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The lzip manual provides the source code of a simple decompressor along with a @@ -54,9 +53,8 @@ makes it safer than compressors returning ambiguous warning values (like gzip) when it is used as a back end for other programs like tar or zutils. Clzip automatically uses for each file the largest dictionary size that does -not exceed neither the file size nor the limit given. Keep in mind that the -decompression memory requirement is affected at compression time by the -choice of dictionary size limit. +not exceed neither the file size nor the limit given. The dictionary size +used for decompression is the same dictionary size used for compression. The amount of memory required for compression is about 1 or 2 times the dictionary size limit (1 if input file size is less than dictionary size @@ -125,15 +123,15 @@ 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). -Clzip uses Arg_parser for command-line argument parsing: -http://www.nongnu.org/arg-parser/arg_parser.html - LANGUAGE NOTE: Uncompressed = not compressed = plain data; it may never have been compressed. Decompressed is used to refer to data which have undergone the process of decompression. +Clzip uses Arg_parser for command-line argument parsing: +http://www.nongnu.org/arg-parser/arg_parser.html + -Copyright (C) 2010-2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright (C) 2010-2025 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute, and modify it. |