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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-06 11:29:00 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-06 11:29:00 +0000
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Merging upstream version 1.0.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
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@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ gzip or bzip2. Clzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses
better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution
and data archiving.
+Clzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by clzip are fully
+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.
+
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,