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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, |