summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2016-05-25 16:01:56 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2016-05-25 16:01:56 +0000
commitdfd5743655065330de03f0618db8607c3d0dd05c (patch)
treec1cd44a28a52380ff73f2020f7fb6fb7d2d2f7c8 /README
parentAdding upstream version 1.8~pre1. (diff)
downloadlunzip-dfd5743655065330de03f0618db8607c3d0dd05c.tar.xz
lunzip-dfd5743655065330de03f0618db8607c3d0dd05c.zip
Adding upstream version 1.8.upstream/1.8
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r--README16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 052751f..793bfb1 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Description
Lunzip is a decompressor for the lzip format. It is written in C and its
small size makes it well suited for embedded devices or software
-installers that need to decompress files but do not need compression
+installers that need to decompress files but don't need compression
capabilities. Lunzip is fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer.
The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ little memory as 50 kB, irrespective of the dictionary size used to
compress the file. To activate it, specify the size of the output buffer
with the "--buffer-size" option and lunzip will use the decompressed
file as dictionary for distances beyond the buffer size. Of course, the
-smaller the output buffer size used in relation to the dictionary size,
-the more accesses to disk are needed and the slower the decompression
-is. This "low memory" mode only works when decompressing to a regular
-file and is intended for systems without enough memory (RAM + swap) to
-keep the whole dictionary at once. It has been tested on a laptop with a
-486 processor and 4 MiB of RAM.
+smaller the buffer size used in relation to the dictionary size, the
+more accesses to disk are needed and the slower the decompression is.
+This "low memory" mode only works when decompressing to a regular file
+and is intended for systems without enough memory (RAM + swap) to keep
+the whole dictionary at once. It has been tested on a laptop with a 486
+processor and 4 MiB of RAM.
The amount of memory required by lunzip to decompress a file is about
46 kB larger than the dictionary size used to compress that file, unless
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ range encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in
LZMA), and Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI).
-Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.