Adding upstream version 1.4.upstream/1.4

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>

3 files changed, 67 insertions, 44 deletions

diff --git a/doc/clzip.1 b/doc/clzip.1
index 48401e2..02181a7 100644
--- a/doc/clzip.1
+++ b/doc/clzip.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.37.1.
-.TH CLZIP "1" "February 2012" "Clzip 1.3" "User Commands"
+.TH CLZIP "1" "February 2013" "Clzip 1.4" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 Clzip \- reduces the size of files
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org
 .br
 Clzip home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/clzip.html
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright \(co 2013 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 .br
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
diff --git a/doc/clzip.info b/doc/clzip.info
index e4b9d3e..ccec058 100644
--- a/doc/clzip.info
+++ b/doc/clzip.info
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ File: clzip.info,  Node: Top,  Next: Introduction,  Up: (dir)
 Clzip Manual
 ************
 
-This manual is for Clzip (version 1.3, 25 February 2012).
+This manual is for Clzip (version 1.4, 18 February 2013).
 
 * Menu:
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This manual is for Clzip (version 1.3, 25 February 2012).
 * Concept Index::         Index of concepts
 
 
-   Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+   Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
 
    This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to
 copy, distribute and modify it.
@@ -73,11 +73,15 @@ 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.
 
-   The amount of memory required for compression is about 5 MiB plus 1
-or 2 times the dictionary size limit (1 if input file size is less than
-dictionary size limit, else 2) plus 8 times the dictionary size really
-used. The amount of memory required for decompression is only a few tens
-of KiB larger than the dictionary size really used.
+   Clzip is able to compress and decompress streams of unlimited size by
+automatically creating multi-member output. The members so created are
+large (about 2^60 bytes each).
+
+   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 limit, else 2) plus 9 times the dictionary size really used. The
+amount of memory required for decompression is only a few tens of KiB
+larger than the dictionary size really used.
 
    Clzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size
 without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the decompression
@@ -328,7 +332,12 @@ File: clzip.info,  Node: File Format,  Next: Examples,  Prev: Invoking Clzip,  U
 4 File Format
 *************
 
-In the diagram below, a box like this:
+Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
+when there is no longer anything to take away.
+-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
+
+
+   In the diagram below, a box like this:
 +---+
 |   | <-- the vertical bars might be missing
 +---+
@@ -357,15 +366,18 @@ additional information before, between, or after them.
      "LZIP".
 
 `VN (version number, 1 byte)'
-     Just in case something needs to be modified in the future. Valid
-     values are 0 and 1. Version 0 files are deprecated. They can
-     contain only one member and lack the `Member size' field.
+     Just in case something needs to be modified in the future. 1 for
+     now.
 
 `DS (coded dictionary size, 1 byte)'
-     Bits 4-0 contain the base 2 logarithm of the base dictionary size.
-     Bits 7-5 contain the number of "wedges" to substract from the base
-     dictionary size to obtain the dictionary size. The size of a wedge
-     is (base dictionary size / 16).
+     Lzip divides the distance between any two powers of 2 into 8
+     equally spaced intervals, named "wedges". The dictionary size is
+     calculated by taking a power of 2 (the base size) and substracting
+     from it a number of wedges between 0 and 7. The size of a wedge is
+     (base_size / 16).
+     Bits 4-0 contain the base 2 logarithm of the base size (12 to 29).
+     Bits 7-5 contain the number of wedges (0 to 7) to substract from
+     the base size to obtain the dictionary size.
      Valid values for dictionary size range from 4KiB to 512MiB.
 
 `Lzma stream'
@@ -379,9 +391,9 @@ additional information before, between, or after them.
      Size of the uncompressed original data.
 
 `Member size (8 bytes)'
-     Total size of the member, including header and trailer. This
-     facilitates safe recovery of undamaged members from multi-member
-     files.
+     Total size of the member, including header and trailer. This field
+     acts as a distributed index, and facilitates safe recovery of
+     undamaged members from multi-member files.
 
 
 
@@ -496,13 +508,13 @@ Concept Index
 
 Tag Table:
 Node: Top226
-Node: Introduction914
-Node: Algorithm4584
-Node: Invoking Clzip7108
-Node: File Format12380
-Node: Examples14375
-Node: Problems16336
-Node: Concept Index16862
+Node: Introduction920
+Node: Algorithm4755
+Node: Invoking Clzip7279
+Node: File Format12551
+Node: Examples14860
+Node: Problems16821
+Node: Concept Index17347
 
 End Tag Table
 
diff --git a/doc/clzip.texinfo b/doc/clzip.texinfo
index 284ed3f..1d0479f 100644
--- a/doc/clzip.texinfo
+++ b/doc/clzip.texinfo
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 @finalout
 @c %**end of header
 
-@set UPDATED 25 February 2012
-@set VERSION 1.3
+@set UPDATED 18 February 2013
+@set VERSION 1.4
 
 @dircategory Data Compression
 @direntry
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ This manual is for Clzip (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}).
 @end menu
 
 @sp 1
-Copyright @copyright{} 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright @copyright{} 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
 
 This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission
 to copy, distribute and modify it.
@@ -92,11 +92,15 @@ 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.
 
-The amount of memory required for compression is about 5 MiB plus 1 or 2
-times the dictionary size limit (1 if input file size is less than
-dictionary size limit, else 2) plus 8 times the dictionary size really
-used. The amount of memory required for decompression is only a few tens
-of KiB larger than the dictionary size really used.
+Clzip is able to compress and decompress streams of unlimited size by
+automatically creating multi-member output. The members so created are
+large (about 2^60 bytes each).
+
+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
+limit, else 2) plus 9 times the dictionary size really used. The amount
+of memory required for decompression is only a few tens of KiB larger
+than the dictionary size really used.
 
 Clzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size
 without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the decompression
@@ -350,6 +354,11 @@ Table of SI and binary prefixes (unit multipliers):
 @chapter File Format
 @cindex file format
 
+Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
+when there is no longer anything to take away.@*
+--- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
+
+@sp 1
 In the diagram below, a box like this:
 @verbatim
 +---+
@@ -385,15 +394,16 @@ All multibyte values are stored in little endian order.
 A four byte string, identifying the lzip format, with the value "LZIP".
 
 @item VN (version number, 1 byte)
-Just in case something needs to be modified in the future. Valid values
-are 0 and 1. Version 0 files are deprecated. They can contain only one
-member and lack the @samp{Member size} field.
+Just in case something needs to be modified in the future. 1 for now.
 
 @item DS (coded dictionary size, 1 byte)
-Bits 4-0 contain the base 2 logarithm of the base dictionary size.@*
-Bits 7-5 contain the number of "wedges" to substract from the base
-dictionary size to obtain the dictionary size. The size of a wedge is
-(base dictionary size / 16).@*
+Lzip divides the distance between any two powers of 2 into 8 equally
+spaced intervals, named "wedges". The dictionary size is calculated by
+taking a power of 2 (the base size) and substracting from it a number of
+wedges between 0 and 7. The size of a wedge is (base_size / 16).@*
+Bits 4-0 contain the base 2 logarithm of the base size (12 to 29).@*
+Bits 7-5 contain the number of wedges (0 to 7) to substract from the
+base size to obtain the dictionary size.@*
 Valid values for dictionary size range from 4KiB to 512MiB.
 
 @item Lzma stream
@@ -407,8 +417,9 @@ CRC of the uncompressed original data.
 Size of the uncompressed original data.
 
 @item Member size (8 bytes)
-Total size of the member, including header and trailer. This facilitates
-safe recovery of undamaged members from multi-member files.
+Total size of the member, including header and trailer. This field acts
+as a distributed index, and facilitates safe recovery of undamaged
+members from multi-member files.
 
 @end table