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@@ -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. |