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diff --git a/doc/clzip.1 b/doc/clzip.1
index cfc9050..32b3bde 100644
--- a/doc/clzip.1
+++ b/doc/clzip.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.1.
-.TH CLZIP "1" "May 2015" "clzip 1.7-rc1" "User Commands"
+.TH CLZIP "1" "July 2015" "clzip 1.7" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
clzip \- reduces the size of files
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ decompress
overwrite existing output files
.TP
\fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-recompress\fR
-force recompression of compressed files
+force re\-compression of compressed files
.TP
\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-keep\fR
keep (don't delete) input files
diff --git a/doc/clzip.info b/doc/clzip.info
index b66195e..786d8c1 100644
--- a/doc/clzip.info
+++ b/doc/clzip.info
@@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ File: clzip.info, Node: Top, Next: Introduction, Up: (dir)
Clzip Manual
************
-This manual is for Clzip (version 1.7-rc1, 23 May 2015).
+This manual is for Clzip (version 1.7, 7 July 2015).
* Menu:
* Introduction:: Purpose and features of clzip
-* Algorithm:: How clzip compresses the data
* Invoking clzip:: Command line interface
* File format:: Detailed format of the compressed file
+* Algorithm:: How clzip compresses the data
* Examples:: A small tutorial with examples
* Problems:: Reporting bugs
* Concept index:: Index of concepts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ This manual is for Clzip (version 1.7-rc1, 23 May 2015).
copy, distribute and modify it.

-File: clzip.info, Node: Introduction, Next: Algorithm, Prev: Top, Up: Top
+File: clzip.info, Node: Introduction, Next: Invoking clzip, Prev: Top, Up: Top
1 Introduction
**************
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ availability:
recovery means. The lziprecover program 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.
+ merging of damaged copies of a file. *note Data safety:
+ (lziprecover)Data safety.
* The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The
lzip manual provides the code of a simple decompressor along with
@@ -87,6 +88,11 @@ bzip2, which 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 will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size
+for each file without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the
+decompression memory requirement is affected at compression time by the
+choice of dictionary size limit.
+
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
@@ -94,11 +100,6 @@ option '-0' is special and only requires about 1.5 MiB at most. The
amount of memory required for decompression is about 46 kB larger than
the dictionary size really used.
- Clzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size
-for each file without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the
-decompression memory requirement is affected at compression time by the
-choice of dictionary size limit.
-
When compressing, clzip replaces every file given in the command line
with a compressed version of itself, with the name "original_name.lz".
When decompressing, clzip attempts to guess the name for the
@@ -138,75 +139,9 @@ automatically creating multi-member output. The members so created are
large, about 2 PiB each.

-File: clzip.info, Node: Algorithm, Next: Invoking clzip, Prev: Introduction, Up: Top
-
-2 Algorithm
-***********
-
-In spite of its name (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm), LZMA is not a
-concrete algorithm; it is more like "any algorithm using the LZMA coding
-scheme". For example, the option '-0' of lzip uses the scheme in almost
-the simplest way possible; issuing the longest match it can find, or a
-literal byte if it can't find a match. Inversely, a much more elaborated
-way of finding coding sequences of minimum size than the one currently
-used by lzip could be developed, and the resulting sequence could also
-be coded using the LZMA coding scheme.
-
- Clzip currently implements two variants of the LZMA algorithm; fast
-(used by option -0) and normal (used by all other compression levels).
-
- The high compression of LZMA comes from combining two basic,
-well-proven compression ideas: sliding dictionaries (LZ77/78) and
-markov models (the thing used by every compression algorithm that uses
-a range encoder or similar order-0 entropy coder as its last stage)
-with segregation of contexts according to what the bits are used for.
-
- Clzip is a two stage compressor. The first stage is a Lempel-Ziv
-coder, which reduces redundancy by translating chunks of data to their
-corresponding distance-length pairs. The second stage is a range encoder
-that uses a different probability model for each type of data;
-distances, lengths, literal bytes, etc.
-
- Here is how it works, step by step:
-
- 1) The member header is written to the output stream.
-
- 2) The first byte is coded literally, because there are no previous
-bytes to which the match finder can refer to.
-
- 3) The main encoder advances to the next byte in the input data and
-calls the match finder.
-
- 4) The match finder fills an array with the minimum distances before
-the current byte where a match of a given length can be found.
-
- 5) Go back to step 3 until a sequence (formed of pairs, repeated
-distances and literal bytes) of minimum price has been formed. Where the
-price represents the number of output bits produced.
-
- 6) The range encoder encodes the sequence produced by the main
-encoder and sends the produced bytes to the output stream.
-
- 7) Go back to step 3 until the input data are finished or until the
-member or volume size limits are reached.
-
- 8) The range encoder is flushed.
-
- 9) The member trailer is written to the output stream.
-
- 10) If there are more data to compress, go back to step 1.
-
-
-The ideas embodied in clzip are due to (at least) the following people:
-Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for
-the 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).
-
-
-File: clzip.info, Node: Invoking clzip, Next: File format, Prev: Algorithm, Up: Top
+File: clzip.info, Node: Invoking clzip, Next: File format, Prev: Introduction, Up: Top
-3 Invoking clzip
+2 Invoking clzip
****************
The format for running clzip is:
@@ -246,7 +181,7 @@ The format for running clzip is:
'-F'
'--recompress'
- Force recompression of files whose name already has the '.lz' or
+ Force re-compression of files whose name already has the '.lz' or
'.tlz' suffix.
'-k'
@@ -363,9 +298,9 @@ invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency error (eg, bug) which
caused clzip to panic.

-File: clzip.info, Node: File format, Next: Examples, Prev: Invoking clzip, Up: Top
+File: clzip.info, Node: File format, Next: Algorithm, Prev: Invoking clzip, Up: Top
-4 File format
+3 File format
*************
Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
@@ -434,7 +369,73 @@ additional information before, between, or after them.

-File: clzip.info, Node: Examples, Next: Problems, Prev: File format, Up: Top
+File: clzip.info, Node: Algorithm, Next: Examples, Prev: File format, Up: Top
+
+4 Algorithm
+***********
+
+In spite of its name (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm), LZMA is not a
+concrete algorithm; it is more like "any algorithm using the LZMA coding
+scheme". For example, the option '-0' of lzip uses the scheme in almost
+the simplest way possible; issuing the longest match it can find, or a
+literal byte if it can't find a match. Inversely, a much more elaborated
+way of finding coding sequences of minimum size than the one currently
+used by lzip could be developed, and the resulting sequence could also
+be coded using the LZMA coding scheme.
+
+ Clzip currently implements two variants of the LZMA algorithm; fast
+(used by option '-0') and normal (used by all other compression levels).
+
+ The high compression of LZMA comes from combining two basic,
+well-proven compression ideas: sliding dictionaries (LZ77/78) and
+markov models (the thing used by every compression algorithm that uses
+a range encoder or similar order-0 entropy coder as its last stage)
+with segregation of contexts according to what the bits are used for.
+
+ Clzip is a two stage compressor. The first stage is a Lempel-Ziv
+coder, which reduces redundancy by translating chunks of data to their
+corresponding distance-length pairs. The second stage is a range encoder
+that uses a different probability model for each type of data;
+distances, lengths, literal bytes, etc.
+
+ Here is how it works, step by step:
+
+ 1) The member header is written to the output stream.
+
+ 2) The first byte is coded literally, because there are no previous
+bytes to which the match finder can refer to.
+
+ 3) The main encoder advances to the next byte in the input data and
+calls the match finder.
+
+ 4) The match finder fills an array with the minimum distances before
+the current byte where a match of a given length can be found.
+
+ 5) Go back to step 3 until a sequence (formed of pairs, repeated
+distances and literal bytes) of minimum price has been formed. Where the
+price represents the number of output bits produced.
+
+ 6) The range encoder encodes the sequence produced by the main
+encoder and sends the produced bytes to the output stream.
+
+ 7) Go back to step 3 until the input data are finished or until the
+member or volume size limits are reached.
+
+ 8) The range encoder is flushed.
+
+ 9) The member trailer is written to the output stream.
+
+ 10) If there are more data to compress, go back to step 1.
+
+
+The ideas embodied in clzip are due to (at least) the following people:
+Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for
+the 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).
+
+
+File: clzip.info, Node: Examples, Next: Problems, Prev: Algorithm, Up: Top
5 A small tutorial with examples
********************************
@@ -545,13 +546,13 @@ Concept index

Tag Table:
Node: Top210
-Node: Introduction897
-Node: Algorithm6100
-Node: Invoking clzip8930
-Node: File format14479
-Node: Examples16881
-Node: Problems18850
-Node: Concept index19376
+Node: Introduction893
+Node: Invoking clzip6152
+Node: File format11705
+Node: Algorithm14108
+Node: Examples16933
+Node: Problems18900
+Node: Concept index19426

End Tag Table
diff --git a/doc/clzip.texi b/doc/clzip.texi
index a74ec6f..e2ca889 100644
--- a/doc/clzip.texi
+++ b/doc/clzip.texi
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
@finalout
@c %**end of header
-@set UPDATED 23 May 2015
-@set VERSION 1.7-rc1
+@set UPDATED 7 July 2015
+@set VERSION 1.7
@dircategory Data Compression
@direntry
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ This manual is for Clzip (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}).
@menu
* Introduction:: Purpose and features of clzip
-* Algorithm:: How clzip compresses the data
* Invoking clzip:: Command line interface
* File format:: Detailed format of the compressed file
+* Algorithm:: How clzip compresses the data
* Examples:: A small tutorial with examples
* Problems:: Reporting bugs
* Concept index:: Index of concepts
@@ -72,10 +72,14 @@ availability:
@itemize @bullet
@item
The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
-recovery means. The lziprecover program 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.
+recovery means. The
+@uref{http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lziprecover_manual.html#Data-safety,,lziprecover}
+program 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.
+@ifnothtml
+@ref{Data safety,,,lziprecover}.
+@end ifnothtml
@item
The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The lzip
@@ -111,6 +115,11 @@ bzip2, which 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 will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size for
+each file without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the
+decompression memory requirement is affected at compression time by the
+choice of dictionary size limit.
+
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 option
@@ -118,11 +127,6 @@ limit, else 2) plus 9 times the dictionary size really used. The option
of memory required for decompression is about 46 kB larger than the
dictionary size really used.
-Clzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size for
-each file without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the
-decompression memory requirement is affected at compression time by the
-choice of dictionary size limit.
-
When compressing, clzip replaces every file given in the command line
with a compressed version of itself, with the name "original_name.lz".
When decompressing, clzip attempts to guess the name for the decompressed
@@ -164,72 +168,6 @@ automatically creating multi-member output. The members so created are
large, about 2 PiB each.
-@node Algorithm
-@chapter Algorithm
-@cindex algorithm
-
-In spite of its name (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm), LZMA is not a
-concrete algorithm; it is more like "any algorithm using the LZMA coding
-scheme". For example, the option '-0' of lzip uses the scheme in almost
-the simplest way possible; issuing the longest match it can find, or a
-literal byte if it can't find a match. Inversely, a much more elaborated
-way of finding coding sequences of minimum size than the one currently
-used by lzip could be developed, and the resulting sequence could also
-be coded using the LZMA coding scheme.
-
-Clzip currently implements two variants of the LZMA algorithm; fast
-(used by option -0) and normal (used by all other compression levels).
-
-The high compression of LZMA comes from combining two basic, well-proven
-compression ideas: sliding dictionaries (LZ77/78) and markov models (the
-thing used by every compression algorithm that uses a range encoder or
-similar order-0 entropy coder as its last stage) with segregation of
-contexts according to what the bits are used for.
-
-Clzip is a two stage compressor. The first stage is a Lempel-Ziv coder,
-which reduces redundancy by translating chunks of data to their
-corresponding distance-length pairs. The second stage is a range encoder
-that uses a different probability model for each type of data;
-distances, lengths, literal bytes, etc.
-
-Here is how it works, step by step:
-
-1) The member header is written to the output stream.
-
-2) The first byte is coded literally, because there are no previous
-bytes to which the match finder can refer to.
-
-3) The main encoder advances to the next byte in the input data and
-calls the match finder.
-
-4) The match finder fills an array with the minimum distances before the
-current byte where a match of a given length can be found.
-
-5) Go back to step 3 until a sequence (formed of pairs, repeated
-distances and literal bytes) of minimum price has been formed. Where the
-price represents the number of output bits produced.
-
-6) The range encoder encodes the sequence produced by the main encoder
-and sends the produced bytes to the output stream.
-
-7) Go back to step 3 until the input data are finished or until the
-member or volume size limits are reached.
-
-8) The range encoder is flushed.
-
-9) The member trailer is written to the output stream.
-
-10) If there are more data to compress, go back to step 1.
-
-@sp 1
-@noindent
-The ideas embodied in clzip are due to (at least) the following people:
-Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for
-the 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).
-
-
@node Invoking clzip
@chapter Invoking clzip
@cindex invoking
@@ -276,7 +214,7 @@ Force overwrite of output files.
@item -F
@itemx --recompress
-Force recompression of files whose name already has the @samp{.lz} or
+Force re-compression of files whose name already has the @samp{.lz} or
@samp{.tlz} suffix.
@item -k
@@ -476,6 +414,72 @@ facilitates safe recovery of undamaged members from multi-member files.
@end table
+@node Algorithm
+@chapter Algorithm
+@cindex algorithm
+
+In spite of its name (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm), LZMA is not a
+concrete algorithm; it is more like "any algorithm using the LZMA coding
+scheme". For example, the option @samp{-0} of lzip uses the scheme in almost
+the simplest way possible; issuing the longest match it can find, or a
+literal byte if it can't find a match. Inversely, a much more elaborated
+way of finding coding sequences of minimum size than the one currently
+used by lzip could be developed, and the resulting sequence could also
+be coded using the LZMA coding scheme.
+
+Clzip currently implements two variants of the LZMA algorithm; fast
+(used by option @samp{-0}) and normal (used by all other compression levels).
+
+The high compression of LZMA comes from combining two basic, well-proven
+compression ideas: sliding dictionaries (LZ77/78) and markov models (the
+thing used by every compression algorithm that uses a range encoder or
+similar order-0 entropy coder as its last stage) with segregation of
+contexts according to what the bits are used for.
+
+Clzip is a two stage compressor. The first stage is a Lempel-Ziv coder,
+which reduces redundancy by translating chunks of data to their
+corresponding distance-length pairs. The second stage is a range encoder
+that uses a different probability model for each type of data;
+distances, lengths, literal bytes, etc.
+
+Here is how it works, step by step:
+
+1) The member header is written to the output stream.
+
+2) The first byte is coded literally, because there are no previous
+bytes to which the match finder can refer to.
+
+3) The main encoder advances to the next byte in the input data and
+calls the match finder.
+
+4) The match finder fills an array with the minimum distances before the
+current byte where a match of a given length can be found.
+
+5) Go back to step 3 until a sequence (formed of pairs, repeated
+distances and literal bytes) of minimum price has been formed. Where the
+price represents the number of output bits produced.
+
+6) The range encoder encodes the sequence produced by the main encoder
+and sends the produced bytes to the output stream.
+
+7) Go back to step 3 until the input data are finished or until the
+member or volume size limits are reached.
+
+8) The range encoder is flushed.
+
+9) The member trailer is written to the output stream.
+
+10) If there are more data to compress, go back to step 1.
+
+@sp 1
+@noindent
+The ideas embodied in clzip are due to (at least) the following people:
+Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for
+the 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).
+
+
@node Examples
@chapter A small tutorial with examples
@cindex examples