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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Clzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Clzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip, compresses most files more than bzip2, and is better than both from a data recovery perspective. Clzip is a clean implementation of the LZMA -algorithm. +"algorithm". Clzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by clzip are fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover. @@ -30,9 +30,15 @@ into account both data integrity and decoder availability: * Additionally lzip is copylefted, which guarantees that it will remain free forever. +A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to +repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with +the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a +corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past. + Clzip uses the same well-defined exit status values used by lzip and bzip2, which makes it safer than compressors returning ambiguous warning -values (like gzip) when it is used as a back end for tar or zutils. +values (like gzip) when it is used as a back end for other programs like +tar or zutils. Clzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size for each file without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the @@ -102,7 +108,7 @@ range encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in LZMA), and Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI). -Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. |