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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-01-23 05:36:41 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-01-23 05:36:48 +0000
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parentReleasing debian version 1.13-6. (diff)
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Merging upstream version 1.14~rc1.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -61,25 +61,25 @@ filename.tlz becomes filename.tar
anyothername becomes anyothername.out
Decompressing a file is much like copying or moving it. Therefore lunzip
-preserves the access and modification dates, permissions, and, when
-possible, ownership of the file just as 'cp -p' does. (If the user ID or
-the group ID can't be duplicated, the file permission bits S_ISUID and
-S_ISGID are cleared).
+preserves the access and modification dates, permissions, and, if you have
+appropriate privileges, ownership of the file just as 'cp -p' does. (If the
+user ID or the group ID can't be duplicated, the file permission bits
+S_ISUID and S_ISGID are cleared).
Lunzip is able to read from some types of non-regular files if either the
option '-c' or the option '-o' is specified.
If no file names are specified, lunzip decompresses from standard input to
-standard output. In this case, lunzip will refuse to read compressed input
-from a terminal, as this might leave the terminal in an abnormal state.
+standard output. In this case, lunzip refuses to read compressed input from
+a terminal, as this might leave the terminal in an abnormal state.
-Lunzip will correctly decompress a file which is the concatenation of two or
+Lunzip correctly decompresses a file which is the concatenation of two or
more compressed files. The result is the concatenation of the corresponding
decompressed files. Integrity testing of concatenated compressed files is
also supported.
The ideas embodied in lunzip are due to (at least) the following people:
-Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for the
+Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrei 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).
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ been compressed. Decompressed is used to refer to data which have undergone
the process of decompression.
-Copyright (C) 2010-2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2010-2023 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute, and modify it.