From a3629922528ef8b10b664add82a8d5a1d26712b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:28:53 +0100 Subject: Adding upstream version 1.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- README | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 69257c5..24f3146 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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, -- cgit v1.2.3