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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 05:01:45 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 05:01:45 +0000
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
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@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ small size makes it well suited for embedded devices or software
installers that need to decompress files but do not need compression
capabilities.
-Lunzip uses the same well-defined exit status values used by bzip2,
-which makes it safer when used in pipes or scripts than compressors
-returning ambiguous warning values, like gzip.
+Lunzip uses the same well-defined exit status values used by lzip and
+bzip2, which makes it safer when used in pipes or scripts than
+decompressors returning ambiguous warning values, like gunzip.
The 4 factor integrity checking of the lzip format guarantees that the
decompressed version of the data is identical to the original. This
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ occurs upon decompression, so it can only tell you that something is
wrong. It can't help you recover the original uncompressed data.
If you ever need to recover data from a damaged lzip file, try the
-lziprecover program.
+lziprecover program. Lziprecover makes lzip files resistant to bit-flip,
+one of the most common forms of data corruption, and its recovery
+capabilities contribute to make of the lzip format one of the best
+options for long-term data archiving.
Lunzip replaces every file given in the command line with a decompressed
version of itself. Each decompressed file has the same modification